Carter

Carter is a surname which originally meant a person who hauls goods in a cart. It comes from the Gaelic and Celtic word cairt (cart). Being of Gaelic and Celtic origins the name originated in Ireland and Scotland and later migrated to England where it was reduced to its English pronunciation and form. However, this name stems from a few common surnames, the names being McCarthy, McArthur and McCarter.

People with this surname may trace their ancestors back to Ireland, many of these name holders ancestors escaped Ireland during the Irish diaspora heading to Great Britain, the American colonies typically the colonies of New York, Massachusetts, Georgia and Virginia. Other immigrants entered the United States later during the Great Famine of Ireland in the 1840s and later. The Irish counties with the highest amount of families having this surname are Laois, Galway, Meath and Leitrim; Laois seems to be the place where most Carters settled or where the name began in origin. Within the past 150 to 200 years, the Carter surname has been adopted widely by the African American community, either with ethnic black and Irish mixing or taken from slavemasters by former slaves. This name is common among African Americans capable of tracing their roots back to the southern United States from the early 20th century onward.

Carter (real estate)

Carter is a privately held commercial real estate investment, development and advisory firm, headquartered in Atlanta.

Management

History

In 1958, Frank Carter and Ewell Pope started the company as Pope & Carter. The company entered the development business in 1964 and built Greenbriar Mall, Atlanta’s first enclosed mall. Current Chairman and CEO Bob Peterson joined Carter in 2002 and launched the first of the opportunistic Carter Real Estate Funds. Carter formed Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT in 2010 to acquire healthcare and data center properties.

In September 2011, Carter sold its brokerage and property management divisions to Cassidy Turley. The company rebranded and narrowed its focus on being an investment, development and advisory firm in September 2012. The firm currently serves as master developer of The Banks, a $600 million mixed-use community in downtown Cincinnati.

Projects

Carter (artist)

John Carter is an American artist and film director based in New York City, using the professional name Carter for his artworks. He was born in 1970 in Norwich, Connecticut

Carter studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992. He then studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1994, and the University of California, Davis, earning an MFA degree in 1997.

Carter is best known for his artwork that spans various media from painting and photography to sculptural installations, film and video. His works have been exhibited internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the USA Today and Abstract America exhibitions, at the Saatchi Gallery in London, England. His works have also been shown at the Royal Academy in London and the Museion in Bolzano, Italy. A comprehensive catalogue of Carter's work edited by Georg Kargl was published in 2008 titled, An Arm with Hair, (The Vienna Catalogue 1973). (ISBN 978-3-7082-3254-6). Publication Studios in 2009 published Carter's, "California Film: 1996". (ISBN 978-0-9843-0607-7).