Carl Granzow

Carl Granzow was born in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1953 where he spent his youth. He later attended California Western University, and completed graduate degrees at Arizona State University in Sculpture and Art Education in 1974. The same year, he moved to Canada and worked for a year at the University of Lethbridge as a lecturer in sculpture and design and then at Neufeld Industries in Lethbridge before being hired as a full-time professor at the University of Lethbridge in 1979. Over the next three decades, Granzow was an influential teacher at the University of Lethbridge where he was instrumental in the development of Papokan, the University's Sculpture Park, the Gushul Studios Artist Residency Program in the Crowsnest Pass and the University's studio art program. He served as Chair for the Art Department, President of the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts for eight years and Director of Papokan Sculpture Park for 13 years.

Carl Granzow exhibited his art widely in Canada, the United States, France and Germany, notably at the North American Sculpture Exhibition in Golden, Colorado where he won the Foothills Art Centre Award for Sculpture. His research focused on experimental forms of sculpture and he made presentations at international sculpture conferences in Yorkshire, England and in Oakland, California. Among many projects that he initiated during his tenure at the University of Lethbridge was the development of a small acreage northeast of Lethbridge as a "grounds for sculpture."