Marcela Carvalho

Marcela Carvalho was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil is a multifaceted artist working in the mediums of painting, ceramics, music and a writer for children's book and Diversecity Magazine. An educator, entrepreneur, works as an executive director for Marcela4arts in New York City with the focus of using art to heal and raise self-esteem to people from different back grounds and cultures. Her current project is with , and Sanctuary for Families, a nonprofit agency dedicated exclusively to serving domestic violence survivors and their children.

2011-Kauffman Foundation-Levin Institute/Suny; Entrepreneurship, 2005- Private workshop in writing and illustrating Children's Books with author Chris Rashka. 2004- The School of Visual Arts, NY, NY, 2003- Gotham Writers' NY, NY, 2000-The Arts Students League, NY, NY, studied Painting and Masters of the Twentieth Century Art with Knox Martin.1998-1996-The Art Students League, NY, NY, studied Drawing with cartoonist Hilda Terry D'Alessio.1996-1992- Haystack School of Art, Deer Isle., Maine, Super Mud Pottery, NY, NY, apprenticeship in weelworks, hand building, responsible for running the studio. 1990- Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY, 1986-Manhattan School of Music, NY, NY, 1986-EMES, Vitoria, Brazil, MA in Music History.

2014: Pfizer Headquarters, NJ
Central Embassy Mall Grand Hall, Bangkok, Thailand
Museum Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil: solo exhibition
N.A.W.A National Association of Women Artist, 80 5th Ave. NY, NY
2012/2013: Artexpo Miami-Art Basel, Florida
Museum of Russian Art, New Jersey, solo exhibition; Scope New York, NY, 2014
CPW Gallery 62nd Street, NY, NY; Charles H. Studio, Florence, Italy Galerie Des Lombards, Mougins - Provence-Alpes-Cotê d'Azur, France.