Carlyle Wolfe Lee paints with both oil and watercolor and makes large-scale installations—all based on drawings from observation of plants and landscape color studies. She has recently begun to use her drawings and color studies to make large sculptures. Wolfe grew up in Canton, Mississippi, and earned a BFA in painting from the University of Mississippi and an MFA in painting and drawing from Louisiana State University. She has also studied in Cortona, Italy, and at the University of Georgia. Wolfe Lee has exhibited work throughout the South, including the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, the David Lusk Gallery in Memphis and in Nashville, the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center, the University of Charleston, the Shaw Center for the Arts, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, the University of Mississippi Museum, and Arkansas Arts Center. Her work was recently selected for the Art in Embassies Program at the US Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique. Wolfe Lee is the recipient of three Mississippi Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellowships (2005, 2010, 2015) and two Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Visual Arts Awards (2008, 2017). She lives in Oxford, works in her studio beside her home, and until recently taught part-time at the University of Mississippi.