{"id":74990,"date":"2024-09-21T19:07:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T23:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=74990"},"modified":"2024-09-21T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T23:08:13","slug":"on-a-personal-note-carlos-marrero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/lifestyle\/on-a-personal-note-carlos-marrero\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>On a Personal Note:<\/strong> Carlos Marrero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bellamy Crawford<\/p>\n<p>By the time he was ten years old, Carlos Marrero knew he wanted to be an artist. \u201cI grew up in a small town in Puerto Rico, the son of conservative Latino parents,\u201d he says. \u201cMy mother recognized my talent very early on, but \u2018macho\u2019 boys in my town didn\u2019t study art.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74993\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74993\" class=\"wp-image-74993\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Laurel-8-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Laurel-8-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Laurel-8-copy-2-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Laurel-8-copy-2-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Laurel-8-copy-2-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Laurel-8-copy-2-810x1013.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Laurel-8-copy-2-1140x1426.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-74993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Marrero. Photo by Xavier R. Mara\u00f1\u00f3n, courtesy of Aventura magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite his father\u2019s hesitation, Marrero\u2019s mother enrolled him in private classes with a Spanish artist, from whom he learned oil painting, pastels and charcoal. His love for art persisted, and after high school, Marrero applied to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was accepted. \u201cI was 19 years old and knew little English, but I convinced my parents to let me go by promising to study graphic design\u2014a more acceptable field for a male student than studio art,\u201d he says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until my graduation, when I won an award for fashion illustration, that my father found out about my fine art degree, and he lost his mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After graduating, Marrero secured a job designing costumes in Las Vegas, where he worked for five years before a fortunate twist of fate launched his career to new heights. \u201cI wanted new audiences to see my work, so when I had time off, I packed my portfolio and flew to New York to introduce myself to design agents there,\u201d Marrero says. \u201cI soon got a call from an editor at Cosmopolitan magazine explaining that an illustrator had dropped the ball on an assignment. I was asked to do an editorial drawing overnight, so I stopped by the art supply store and whipped out a sketch. The art director was so grateful that she offered me a monthly column.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74994\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74994\" class=\"wp-image-74994\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Marrero-Laurel-1-copy-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Marrero-Laurel-1-copy-3.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Marrero-Laurel-1-copy-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Marrero-Laurel-1-copy-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Marrero-Laurel-1-copy-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Marrero-Laurel-1-copy-3-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/On-a-Personal-Note-Marrero-Laurel-1-copy-3-810x1215.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-74994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scarf by Carlos Marrero.<br \/>Photo by Tyler Molinari<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Marrero\u2019s Cosmopolitan gig led to opportunities at InStyle, ELLE, The New York Times and Vogue, among others. But then, as quickly as his career seemed to take off, the birth of the internet derailed it. \u201cAn illustration that used to pay $1,000 was now only paying $350,\u201d he says. \u201cI needed a different way to make a living.\u201d So, once more Marrero packed up his portfolio and booked a flight to Paris, where he was introduced to artistic and cultural influences that changed the way he viewed his work. \u201cI was inspired by the artistic scarves and shawls people were wearing, and began experimenting with designs on silk,\u201d he says. It wasn\u2019t long before his successful line of wearable artwork, the Marrero Collection, was born.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Marrero traveled to North Carolina to visit his brother and fell in love with Asheville\u2019s free-spirited culture. \u201cSomething inside of me changed during the pandemic,\u201d he says. \u201cI craved a more humble existence surrounded by nature. Asheville is a very supportive community for local artists, and I have loved every second of it.\u201d Since his arrival, Marrero has designed multiple scarves for charity fundraising events and is eagerly looking to continue this trend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/MarreroCollection.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MarreroCollection.com<\/a> or on Instagram <a href=\"http:\/\/Instagram.com\/camarrero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@camarrero<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time he was ten years old, Carlos Marrero knew he wanted to be an artist. \u201cI grew up in a small town in Puerto Rico, the son of conservative Latino parents,\u201d he says. \u201cMy mother recognized my talent very early on, but \u2018macho\u2019 boys in my town didn\u2019t study art.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":74995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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