Teen Studio: Fragmented & Whole: Personal Collage with Nanette Carter

Join us at the Montclair Art Museum for Fragmented & Whole: Personal Collage with Nanette Carter, an exclusive art experience for teens to attend a private tour and mixed media workshop led by a renowned exhibiting artist!

Teens will join Carter on an exclusive tour of her solo exhibition, Nanette Carter: A Question of Balance, featuring large collages using Mylar, before heading to the art studio for a guided art workshop inspired by the materials, methods, and metaphors found in Carter's work.

In this workshop, students will explore abstraction as a personal response to their own experiences navigating social issues in society today.

Participants are also encouraged to bring your old jeans, fabrics, beads, favourite papers or magazines to be upcycled into art! Mylar and other mixed-media materials will be provided as surfaces for painting and drawing.

Bring your imagination - and some upcycle-worthy materials - and let’s make some art!

There is advanced registration for this special edition of Teen Studio. Use the link below.

By registering for this class, you are agreeing to MAM’s Art School Policies.

^{About Nanette Carter and A Question of Balance}

^{“Working with intangible ideas around contemporary issues has been my motivating force.” Nanette Carter was born in Columbus, Ohio and attended Oberlin College for her BA. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute of Art in New York and taught drawing there for 20 years. Her works have been exhibited around the globe; Senegal, Togo, Brazil, Italy, Germany, England, Syria, and Japan. Nanette has received numerous grants, which include the NEA, Anonymous Was a Woman, The Gottlieb Foundation, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She is in a number of Museums and Corporate Offices and resides in New York City.}

^{Currently on view at MAM, Nanette Carter: A Question of Balance examines the artist’s fascination with the tension between instability and equilibrium. For nearly five decades, Nanette Carter (b. 1954) has made art that reflects the world around her. Using the language of abstraction—line, shape, color, pattern, and texture—she speaks to issues that burden contemporary society. Throughout her career, Carter has investigated the idea of balance, both as a compositional element and as a strategy for navigating a rapidly changing world.}

^{Her works from the last 30 years allude to a world impacted by social injustice, political upheaval, and a nonstop stream of news and social media. Her powerful abstractions are visual metaphors for what weighs us down or knocks us off balance, and how we carry that weight.}