Join resident Coralys Carter in the classroom for a weaving workshop!
*featured image: Papa’s Truck or Lone Lily Beside the Road 2025
Wood, nails, hair, barrettes, wool, image transfers of letters
Coralys Carter is a sculptor and weaver living in eastern Tennessee. Recently receiving an MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, Carter is furthering her material exploration into the concept of bodies rooted in spaces and places rooted in bodies.
Coralys lends flesh to memory. Through sculpture, etchings, and textiles, Carter contends with the places memories reside: in our objects, in our homes, and in ourselves.
In Carter’s work, a life in southern Illinois and southwest Virginia is returned to by the creation of a slippage in time: memory is refashioned through the materials that make a house (plaster, wood, glass, foam, paper, metal, concrete) and the objects that construct our memories (photographs, hair, letters). Carter considers time as a perpetual point of access within our bodies—inviting others to inhabit her memories with her in the present.
Carter folds time, rendering it as physical as the people that slipped through the Midwest via labor, the Great Migration, and the circumstances that brought her into being.
Recent residencies and honors include the Stove Works Residency, Yucca Valley Material Lab Residency, Longenecker Roth Artist in Resident Fellow with Tanya Aguiñiga, the Black Studies Project Fellowship, the Russell Grant, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop’s SIP Fellowship, Textile Art Center’s WIP Residency, and Processing Foundation’s Processing Fellowship.