Spend your lunch hour hearing from Baltimore-based multimedia artist Zoë Charlton as she discusses her recent residency at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland during Lunch on Fridays from 12:15 to 1:30pm Friday, October 25 in CIA's Peter B. Lewis Theater.

This edition of Lunch on Friday's is held in partnership with the Morgan Conservatory and ATNSC: Center for Healing & Creative Leadership.

Charlton will present an overview of her work, artistic practice and participation in the Morgan Conservatory's Collaborative Residency for Artists and Apprentices, which introduces leading contemporary artists to the transformative medium of hand papermaking and creates a learning environment that establishes a new cohort of master papermakers from among the apprentice-artists who learn and work alongside the contemporary artists. The residency program is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts through a Grants for Arts Projects award.

This presentation will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Charlton; Nicole Donnelly, Morgan Conservatory executive director; and M. Carmen Lane, founder and director at ATNSC: Center for Healing and Creative Leadership. The panel will discuss the collaborative nature of Charlton's residency, which involved collaboration through papermaking and collaboration between arts organizations.

Zoë Charlton (Baltimore, MD) creates figure drawings, collages, installations, and animations that depict her subject’s relationship to culturally loaded objects and landscapes.  Charlton received her MFA degree from the University of Texas at Austin and participated in residencies, including Artpace Residency (TX), McColl Center for Art + Innovation (NC), Ucross Foundation (WY), the Skowhegan School of Painting (ME), and the Patterson Residency at the Creative Alliance (MD). Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions including The Delaware Contemporary (DE), the Harvey B. Gantt Center (NC), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR), Studio Museum of Harlem (NY), Contemporary Art Museum (TX), the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Poland), and Haas & Fischer Gallery (Switzerland). She is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner grant (2012) and a Rubys grant (2014). Museum collections include The Phillips Collection (DC), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR), Birmingham Museum of Art (AL), and Studio Museum in Harlem (NY). Charlton is a Professor of Art at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA and is a board member at the Washington Project for the Arts (DC) and Threewalls (Chicago, IL). 

M. Carmen Lane (b. 1975, African-American, Mohawk, Tuscarora) is a two-spirit contemporary artist, writer and facilitator based in Cleveland, Ohio. Carmen’s work explores Black/Indigenous identities, two-spirit and non-binary masculinities, intergenerational grief and settler colonial behaviors within human systems. They are the founder and director of ATNSC: Center for Healing and Creative Leadership, an artist-led incubator and exhibition space for socially engaged Indigenous artists and artists of color. They also work with arts and culture leaders on equity leadership and change through their consulting firm MC Lane Consulting. Carmen has designed anti-oppression learning experiences for activists/organizers, taught and lectured at university (including The New School of Social Research, Chicago Theological Seminary and Yale); published their poetry in numerous journals and anthologies and has exhibited their work in galleries and museums regionally and nationally. They are a recipient of the 2023 Artist2Artist Fellowship from the Arts Matters Foundation and 2020 Joyce Awards as well as several artists residencies. Carmen is the author of Calling Out After Slaughter (2015) and is a current contributor to the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art book Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects.

Nicole Donnelly is a hand papermaker, visual artist, and the executive director of the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory in Cleveland, OH. As an artist and educator, she established community accessible paperTHINKtank in Philadelphia, PA, and has taught papermaking both as a traditional craft and artistic medium at the University of the Arts and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Additionally, she served as Collaborative Papermaker for projects with the Artists in Residence of Brandywine Workshop & Archives and the Brodsky Center at PAFA. Now living in Cleveland, Donnelly continues to dedicate time working as a Collaborative Papermaker with invited artists in the midst of a busy administrative calendar, recognizing the power of collaboration as a tool for building community.

Parking: Lunch on Fridays attendees may park in any of CIA's Lot 73 and Annex Lot, both of which surround our campus. Please note that signs posted around those lots correctly state that parking typically requires a CIA permit or visitor pass and that violators will be ticketed. However, to accommodate our valued Lunch on Fridays attendees, that policy won't be enforced during the program. Have questions? Please contact Reinberger Gallery at reinbergergallery@cia.edu or 216.421.7407.

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