Pratt Institute

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Education

B.A., Oberlin College, 1976
M.F.A., Pratt Institute of Art, 1978

Biography

Nanette Carolyn Carter was born in Columbus, Ohio. Most of her childhood was spent in Montclair, New Jersey. Her first art classes took place at the Montclair Museum of Art in New Jersey at the age of six. This would be the beginning of Nanette’s life’s work in the fine arts.  During her junior year she studied abroad in Perugia, Italy. That year she traveled through Europe and North Africa. Presently Ms. Carter is a tenured Associate Adjunct Professor of art at Pratt Institute where she teaches Drawing/ Mixed Media classes and is the Coordinator for Drawing. Today she exhibits with the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in Chicago, Miami and Detroit. She works and lives in New York City. Her next solo show is in Miami in October 2012 and she will exhibit in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 2013 and Havana, Cuba in 2014.