Carolyn ("Carri") Jobe's studio art practice encompasses painting and drawing through a restricted set of formal concerns, source materials and color considerations. She co-founded Tri-Star Arts in 2014, a statewide contemporary arts non-profit serving Tennessee. Tri-Star Arts cultivates and spotlights the contemporary visual art scenes in each region while fostering a unified state-wide art scene. She has been integral in forming the vision and programs for Tri-Star Arts, including the statewide online art hub locatearts.org, regular exhibitions, special projects, an artist grant fund, and the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art. Her work with Tri-Star Arts has been featured in publications such as ARTnews, Artforum, Burnaway, Inside of Knoxville, and Number Magazine, amongst others.

Carri is a Nashville native and was influenced by her grandfather who modeled art making while also founding and operating an accounting firm. She received her BFA at University of Tennessee and then spent time in San Antonio, TX, Brooklyn, NY, Nashville, TN, and Knoxville, TN where she continued her art practice, worked in non-profit and church administration, coordinated art handling and installation projects, and then co-founded her own art non-profit. Her exhibitions have been on view at venues such as Lipscomb University (Nashville, TN), Chelsea Music Festival (New York, NY), Fluorescent Gallery (Knoxville, TN), Alba De Leon Project Space (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Studio 106b (San Antonio, TX), Southfork (Memphis, TN), Ground Floor Gallery (Nashville, TN) and Maker Exchange (Knoxville, TN). Her studio practice is currently based on the border of Tennessee and Georgia, where she resides with her husband, Brian R. Jobe, and their three active boys.