Welcome!
You are part of a cohort of high school students across North Carolina participating in Artists in Process. In this program you will do the following:
- Explore artists from the NCMA collection connected to the Big Concept: Place.
- Choose works for inspiration and develop ideas in a process journal around the concept.
- Participate in a field trip (virtually or in person) for more inspiration.
- Create work related to the theme, with the option of submitting to NCMA’s juried art exhibition.
The program explores these key questions:
- How do artists arrive at their final work?
- What is the process an artist goes through to develop, document, and refine their ideas?
- How do artists translate these ideas into a work of art or a body of work?
Big Concept
This year’s concept focus: Place
The concept of place in contemporary art explores how environments shape identity, memory, and experience. Artists investigate place as more than a physical location. A place can be a city, landscape, home, or symbolic site connected to important events or collective identity. Through visual art, artists explore how environments carry meaning shaped by culture, memory, identity, and social experience.
Big Questions
- How can artists visually communicate the meaning of a place?
- How do artists represent place beyond a physical location?
- How does place influence identity, memory, and belonging?
- How do artists critique or reinterpret social, political, or environmental spaces?
- How do changing environments, technology, and globalization influence our understanding and perspectives of place?
- How can artists critique or challenge social, political, or environmental issues connected to place?
Grab your Notebook and begin exploring!
Collection 1
View works of art that relate to the theme.