Nanette Carolyn Carter, born January 30, 1954, in Columbus, Ohio, is an African-American artist[1] and college educator living and working in New York City, best known for her collages with paper, canvas and Mylar (archival plastic sheets).
In 1978, Care began teaching printmaking and drawing at the Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, New Jersey, while she continued to develop her career as a full-time practicing artist.
[18] She seeks to address the need for “negotiating the realities of inequality seen around the world[19]” as evident in her series “Afro-Sentinels II"[20] that emanates from the desire to combat racial injustice with a cadre of vigilant guards.
A body of recent work, begun in 2013, “Cantilevered”[21] becomes a metaphor for 21st Century life, “living with technology advancing every day, forcing one to look at global issues….responsibilities....a deluge of information and history.” In her creative practice for many years, Carter has been dedicated to working with intangible ideas around contemporary issues in an abstract vocabulary of form, line, and color, and to present the mysteries of nature and human nature.
[22] Carter has been awarded many honors including the Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2021),[23] The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, NY (2014), Artists’ Fellowship Inc. Grant, NY (2013), The Mayer Foundation Grant, NY (2013), Cultural Envoy to Syria, (2007) chosen by the US State Department to represent US at the 7th Annual Women's Art Festival in Aleppo, Syria,[24] Mudd Library, Oberlin College (2003) Commission, OH,[25] and invitations to be a resident artist at Hydra Art Project (2017), Perugia, Italy[26] and the Experimental Printmaking Institute (2015), Lafayette College, PA.