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Weather/Imagination Snug Harbor Art Center Workshop 2008
By Nancy Manter
Oscar Wilde said "Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else..." Weather is what we all live with and encounter each day of our lives. In this workshop, we explored the meaning and significance of inclement weather based on visual as well as emotional experiences unique to each student. Using weather as a metaphor and a means of expression, we created works of art that was later exhibited at the Snug Harbor Art Center.
Manter collaborated with a group of psychiatric patients living on their own in the New York area. They began by developing images, memories and ideas inspired by weather. They were then translated onto Mylar using graphite, ink and digital imagery. In the course of four days, the individual art works were compiled, layered and grommeted together to create a large-scale installation exhibited at the Newhouse Gallery at the Snug Harbor Art Center in Staten Island, New York.
Princeton University Atelier Program
"Against The Wall; Landscapes of the Twenty-first Century"
In 2004 the Atelier Residency Program at Princeton University, directed by author Toni Morrison, invited me to participate in a collaboration with Ben Shedd, academy award winning Imax filmmaker. We selected twelve students to work with and chose a theme, "Landscapes in the Twenty-first Century." We created several films based on imagery created and complied by the students that were shown on a large-scale digital resolution wall in the Frist Student Center.
College of the Atlantic
"Carving; A Collaboration"
In 2006, I was invited up to the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine to participate in a collaboration with Professor Dru Colbert and her 3-d design students. On a very cold and windy day we headed out to Sandy Beach in Acadia National Park where we made drawings in sand using our feet and found sticks. We photographed, scanned and printed out these images. Ultimately, this piece evolved into a triptych installation, which was displayed on campus.
Stevens Institute of Technology
"Inscapes; Combustion"
In 2007, Manter collaborated with her drawing students to create a site-specific installation of work drawn on sails and mylar. These were exhibited in the interdisciplinary program, Art and Music Technology, at the Babbio Center on the Hudson River.
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