Portrait photo credit: Nydia Blas
Open House: Kelly Taylor Mitchell
AUGUST 3, 2023 | 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Join us on Thursday, August 3 for an Open House featuring Kelly Taylor Mitchell. Kelly’s multidisciplinary practice centers oral history and ancestral memory, real and imagined, woven into the fabric of the Africana Diaspora. Her work is deeply invested in labor-intensive making, slowness, and home-spun passed down processes. Combining printmaking, papermaking, performance, book arts, and textiles, her current work stems from ancestral origin points in the American South, specifically The Great Dismal Swamp (NC / VA), Mitchell Place (Garysburg, NC), Nansemond and Weapemeoc land, and Gee's Bend (Boykin, AL), Muscogee land.
About the Artist
Kelly Taylor Mitchell is an artist and educator based in Atlanta, GA. Kelly has completed residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop and Atlanta Contemporary. Kelly has completed fellowships with The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (Working Artist Project 2020-2021), The American Academy in Rome (Spelman College Affiliate Fellowship 2022), and The SMFA at Tufts Traveling Fellowship (2021-2022). She is a 2022 Atlanta Artadia Awardee. Her work is exhibited nationally and can be found in collections such as the Harvard Fine Arts Library, Bowdoin Special Collections, Smith College Special Collections, Walker Art Center Library, among others. Recent solo shows include Reunion at The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Preaching to the Choir at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, and Kin, Spirit, Seed at Westobou. Kelly has taught workshops at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and Women's Studio Workshop. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College and a Midtown Heart of the Arts Artist in Residence (Atlanta, GA).
Kelly Taylor Mitchell is teaching a class at Dieu Donné as part of the Summer Paper Institute from August 4 - 6. Learn more here.