Please join Myers 2024 commissioned art awardee Carina Maye for a workshop on reflection, storytelling, and abstraction that builds upon her current exhibit, Let Me Think About It, on display in the Offit Gallery through October 20th. Each tapestry, made with felt upon a velvet cloth explores one of five central themes: Delight, Love, Gather, Dream, and Rise.

In this workshop, Carina Maye will guide participants in approaches to learning through memories and personal narratives when one must relinquish control of their stories to be consumed by the public. Guests will explore felting to create a fabric or artwork as a means of storytelling inspired by their memories and personal narratives.

Carina D. Maye is an educator and artist from Marietta, Georgia. She is a fourth-generation graduate of Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, GA. While in her fifth year of college teaching, Carina completed a Master of Arts in Business Design and Arts Leadership at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, GA. She is a doctoral candidate in the Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. As a researcher, Carina Maye is interested in how Black artists’ personal experiences intersect with their educational and professional experiences.

Carina worked with Teachers College, Art & Art Education Macy Art Gallery from September 2018 and served as the gallery coordinator and fellow from August 2019 to August 2022. She serves on the Academic Advising Team, working directly with incoming and first-year M.A. and Ed.M. Art & Art Education Program students. Her commitment to the arts includes serving in a co-directorship for the Community Arts Caucus of the National Art Education Association. In 2022, Carina received an artist grant and a culminating exhibition with the Art & Art Education Program. As an artist, she has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. Carina’s work was purchased by Albany State University – Albany, GA (2011), Savannah College of Art and Design – Lacoste, France (2012), and Teachers College, Columbia University – New York, NY (2020, 2021).

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Where: 305 Russell