Virtual Education
Online Public Programs
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PERFORMANCE, POWER OBJECTS, AND PAPERMAKING WITH KELLY TALYOR 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.
OBSERVING SHADOWS: A CONVERSATION WITH ALEJANDRA ARIAS SEVILLA
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET - ONLINE
Drawing on process-based metaphors for loss and growth, transformation and deformation, artist Alejandra Arias Sevilla’s practice is rooted in printmaking, and encompasses papermaking, animation, book arts, and more. Through abstraction of form and language, her work emphasizes the practice of close observation. Enthralled by the relationship between translation and shadow, her recent works in paper explore the semiotics of wrought iron guards, text, and the color blue.
In this webinar, Arias Sevilla will discuss her creative practice as well as her experience as the 2024 Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow at Dieu Donné, in which she collaborated with resident artists and developed a body of artwork in paper.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alejandra Arias Sevilla (Mexico City, Mexico) is a visual artist and collaborator based in Brooklyn, NY. Arias Sevilla received a BFA in Intermedia from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She was awarded the Undergrowth Educational Print Fund at Mullowney Printing in 2021 and became the Lead Printer from 2021-2023. She is the 2024 Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow at Dieu Donné, and has completed residencies in Stelo Camp Colton and In Cahoots. Her work has been featured in the Oregon Library Association Quarterly, and can be found in the Albert Solheim Special Collection. She has led printmaking workshops in Black Whole Press, Independent Print Resource Center, Mullowney Printing, and PNCA.
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Past Online Events + Workshops
Video recordings for most webinars are available on Dieu Donné’s YouTube Channel.
Global Perspectives in Hand Papermaking (2021)
“Global Perspectives in Hand Papermaking” was a virtual lecture series featuring papermakers from around the world. The series explored both historic and contemporary approaches to papermaking through talks by individuals with expertise in papermaking in Japan, Korea, India, Chile, and Spain. Among the topics discussed were traditional fibers, tools, and papermaking techniques, as well as contemporary trends in production papermaking and artistic experimentation.
Special thanks to the Windgate Foundation for their generous support for Global Perspectives in Hand Papermaking.
Past online lectures can be viewed here, with closed captioning available for each.
Remote & Online Learning
Papermaking lectures are available by our Professional studio staff for a small fee. Our staff works with each instructor directly to gear the presentation and talk to their particular interests.
Various pricing options are available, with lengths of lectures varying from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. Remote lectures can be done by Zoom or other preferred group video call platforms.
To schedule a class, please email dieudonne@dieudonne.org.