The Creative Threshold: With Balam Bartolomé

Sat Mar 22 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC-04:00

721 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC, United States, North Carolina 28202 | Charlotte

McColl Center for Art + Innovation
Publisher/HostMcColl Center for Art + Innovation
The Creative Threshold: With Balam Bartolom\u00e9
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Date: Saturday, March 22
Time: 1:00 PM —3:00 PM
Cost: Free
Join Artist-in-Residence Balam Bartolomé for an engaging workshop that invites you into his creative process. Known for exploring the connections between nature, history, culture, and everyday materials like corn, clay, and avocado, Balam will guide participants through a collaborative art-making experience.
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to gain insight into how an artist approaches their work, an experience that can inspire and expand your own creative practice or shift the way you view the world, whether you’re an artist or simply curious about art.
Together, you’ll create a collective piece that reflects the themes of the session. The collaborative artwork will become part of a new body of work by Balam, offering you the unique opportunity to contribute while gaining fresh ideas, inspiration, and a deeper connection to the relationship between art, history, nature, and culture.
All materials will be supplied. Open to all levels.Ages 16 and up.

About the Artist:
Balam Bartolomé was born in Chiapas, Mexico. Lives in Mexico City. His work explores the relation between culture and matter, the study of history and its drift in present time. Has exhibited in North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. Has attended the next residencies: Encuentro Regional de Arte (UY, 2007); ISCP (USA, 2009); NKD (NO, 2011); Bemis Center (USA, 2014); Casa Wabi (MX, 2015), Flora Ars+Natura (COL, 2016), and Sculpture Space (USA, 2017). His most representative solo exhibitions are Meximoron, at the Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones (MX, 2018), and Reves, at the Museo Carrillo Gil (MX, 2018). Among the collective shows are the 1st BIENALSUR (ARG, 2017), 1st Bristol Biennial (UK, 2012), 15th Tallin Triennial (EST, 2011) and Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico (PR, 2024). He currently co-directs the Bienal Tlatelolca, in Mexico City.
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