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Nanette Carter
Nanette Carter is an American painter and mixed-media artist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Nanette Carter attended Oberlin College, majoring in Studio Art and Art History. Receiving her Masters in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute of Art, she is currently a tenured Associate Adjunct Professor teaching Drawing and Mixed Media classes at Pratt Institute, but spends the majority of her time in her New York studio. The relationship between nature and human life defines her art, which consistently "capture[s] the rhythms of life and nature in all their fluidity and tactility." Moreover, she has coined herself a "Scapeologist," whose art alludes to various "scapes": land, sea, sky, under water, etc. Comprising a critical part of a continuum of skillful African American female artists, her presence is international and widspread. During her junior year of college, she studied abroad in Perugia, Italy, later travelling through Europe and North Africa. Her work was also featured at the International Women's Art Festival in Aleppo, Syria and the Bermuda National Gallery.