An Abstract Celebration with Candy Carver
Partnership with Duke Arts Create & DuWell
About the Workshop
In this workshop, participants will create brightly colored art works using the same painting techniques that African American artist Alma Thomas used in many of her well known works.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to supplies required for this workshop, space is limited to the first 30 Durham-based participants to register. An email will be sent for on-campus pickup instructions the week of the event.
About the Instructor
Candy Carver is a North Carolina native who spent her formative years in Indiana, where she developed her abstract creativity. Her artwork is inspired by her personal journey to experience and share positive and encouraging emotions. She attributes much of her inspiration to her own love for excitement, color and beauty found in the human form.
Carver’s paintings are often filled with movement, sensual, brightly colored, heavily patterned images. They tell stories of those she interacts with as well as lessons learned within her own life. Her goal is for the viewer to be engulfed by the tangibility of strength, power, boldness and resilience of her art. She wants the viewer to leave feeling “full” of whatever they lack. Candy’s work is for those who need to feel energized and emboldened to press forward. Her work is for everyone!
About the Location
This workshop will meet online via Zoom. See link at top of page.
More Mindfulness Workshops
DukeCreate, a workshops series for the Duke community, is collaborating with Student Wellness to offer more opportunities to support well-being through creativity.