Ed Carpenter (born 1946) is an artist specializing in large-scale public sculptures made of glass.
[1] In 2019 he installed the first phase of a dichroic glass sculpture in the Portland Public Library, called "Mollie's Garden".
The piece honored his mother, a library volunteer named Mollie Starbuck, who died in her 80's.
[5] He created a lobby sculpture for the Meydenbauer Convention Center in Bellevue, Washington; a large (17 meters x 18 meters x 6.5 meters) work for the Morgan Library at Colorado State University (commissioned by the Colorado Council on the Arts); and glass windows for the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana.
[6] Other works include the Flying Bridge between buildings at Central Washington University, an installation at the Hokkaido Sports Center, and a large sphere for the atrium of Carlson school.