Carolyn G. Bradley was one of Ohio’s most prominent artists and a professor in Ohio State’s School of Fine and Applied Arts. Born and reared in Richmond, Indiana, she received a bachelor of arts degree from Earlham College, a bachelor of arts education degree from the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis, and a master’s degree in fine arts from the Escuela Universitaria de Bellas Artes at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. An avid traveler, Professor Bradley was dubbed a “paint-brush ambassador” as a result of her many educational missions for the U.S. State Department to the West Indies and Central and South America. In 1946 she served as a visiting professor of art at the University of Chile and as a specialist in art to that nation for the Inter-American Educational Foundation. She was one of 18 professors chosen by the State Department to work in the cultural centers of Latin America in 1944. In that capacity she taught and lectured in Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Professor Bradley authored three books on costume design and various articles on Latin American countries. Professor Bradley was a devoted and steady, quiet friend to foreign students at Ohio State, particularly those from South America. She brought to and shared with the students an unusual and rare quality of sympathetic understanding and kindness, which made her known as a teacher from whom the student could always seek counsel and guidance.