Peter Marín Artist Talk and Workshops

North Carolina-based artist and educator Peter Marín will give an artist talk at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.

Peter Marín was born and raised in Mexico City. He received a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Hunter College. Marín has been making ofrendas for over 25 years and has been actively painting for 30 years, and exhibits both nationally and internationally. His paintings are part of public and private collections and foundations including Hunter College, United Way, Boys and Girls Club, The City of Raleigh and SAS. He is represented by Charlotte Russell Contemporary.

Marín holds workshops and creates Mexican craft about Día de Muertos art to maintain, transmit and celebrate his traditions. He produces varying scale ofrendas using and creating Mexican artesanías, which include sugar and paper mache skulls, papel picado, clay figures, paper flowers, retablos and dioramas. He is the artist behind the colossal ofrenda installation for NCMA’s 2019 “Mexican Modernism” exhibition, which drew more than 100,000 visitors and over 30,000 visitors interacted with the ofrenda. He is also the lead artist and producer of Día de Oakwood, an annual week long ofrenda installation project which takes place in the Historic Oakwood Cemetery and draws approximately 5,000 people.

He teaches art and is a professor and arts educator with over 25 years of working with various populations, including undergraduate and active adults. He currently teaches at Meredith College, North Carolina Museum of Art, Pullen and Sertoma Art Centers. Additionally, he teaches privately and mentors artists. Additionally, Marín serves as Curator of Exhibitions for Diamante Arts and Cultural Center, in Raleigh, NC.

Marín shapes his artistic decisions with his personal sensibilities stemming from his combined painting practice/experience/education. These ideas have shaped his personal abstract language and defined his traditional crafts practice, motivating further interests in painting and reinforcing his traditional practices with Mexican craft.

Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to all.

Please join us for Marín’s artist talk at 1:15 pm and register to attend one of two Día de Muertos Workshops, led by Peter.

Two workshops will be offered — one before the artist talk at 11 am, and one after the artist talk at 2:15 pm. The workshops are free. Registration is required and space is limited.