Performance, Power Objects, and Papermaking with Kelly Taylor Mitchell
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 6:30 - 7:30 PM ET - ONLINE
Kelly Taylor Mitchell’s multidisciplinary practice centers ancestral memory, real and imagined, woven into the fabric of the Africana Diaspora. Working across installation, papermaking, textiles, performance and book arts, her current work stems from lineal origin points in the American South and Caribbean. In the studio, material play and tactility facilitate an ever evolving understanding of the act of making as a tool for accessing ancestral knowledge stored in the body. Firmly grounded within a legacy of craft, Kelly’s practice references and constructs mythologies that find their roots in marronage, ritual performance, and spiritual technology.
In this webinar Kelly will talk through papermaking within the ecosystem of her practice, focusing on bodies of work made during Summer 2023 while teaching ‘Paper, Collage, and the Archive’ at Penland School of Craft and during her recent 2024 Guest Artist in Print Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kelly Taylor Mitchell is an artist and educator who lives and works in Atlanta, GA where she is currently a 2023-2024 Midtown Alliance Artist-in-Residence and an Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College. Kelly is the 2024 Inaugural Nellie Mae Rowe Prize Seed Awardee, a 2022 Atlanta Artadia Awardee, a 2021-2022 SMFA at Tufts Travelling Fellow, the 2022 Inaugural Spelman College Affiliate Fellow at The American Academy in Rome and a 2020-2021 Working Artist Project Fellow at The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia. She has completed residencies with The University of Texas at Austin, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Women’s Studio Workshop, and Atlanta Contemporary. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, Penland School of Craft, and Dieu Donné. Her work can be found in collections such as the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Harvard Fine Arts Library, Duke University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Walker Art Center Library, and publications including Burnaway, Art Papers, and Hand Papermaking.