Kelly Taylor Mitchell Studio Newsletter: November

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Kelly Taylor Mitchell
November 30, 2023

Hi Y’all,

As the semester wraps up at Spelman and the weather turns colder, I am writing with a few opportunities to connect. I hope the forthcoming Solstice and New Year brings you warmth, slowness, and fellowship with those you love.

On View

My solo show Memory Worker is on view at Lyndon House Arts Center through March 12th, 2024. I would love to see you at the artist talk, scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 20th, 2PM.

Totem #9 (Woman From Cachoeira), 2023. Beads, Cachoeira t-shirt, image transfers from private performance at The GreatDismal Swamp, ceramic beads. On view in Memory Worker, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA.

“Memory work is a conjuring, a laying on of hands, an inheritance. An active lineage of ancestral seeking is presented here as a joyous offering, an outreached hand, at once invitation and RSVP.  A hand-sewn stitch is a protective gesture, popcorn a healing salve, pearls an ode to the women in white, and peanuts a gift for those who love them. A revolving door south, seaward, and back again Memory Worker shares spiritual technologies and handmade paper.”

I Wrote This Just for You…

I am so very proud to share with you a lil’ something I wrote for Burnaway’s Camouflage Issue. Take a look here and let me know what you think of An Invitation: Ancestral Mapping.

Untitled #1, 2023. Handmade paper: Alabama river cane and Georgia Spanish moss base sheet,  flax, and sequins, 11 x17in. Featured in An Invitation: Ancestral Mapping, Burnaway and on view in Memory Worker, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA

Come Thru?!

Atlanta folks… Saturday, Dec. 2nd, 2-4PM come print with me, Dr. Amy Zeidan, and students from our Emory University course Immigration as a Social and Structural Determinant of Health at our pop up event: Screenprinting for Public Health. This course and culminating project is the result of the Arts & Social Justice Fellowship. You can find us at Best End Brewing, with all things screenprinting. Make and take a print! Learn about the work of our community partners! Free and all are welcome!

All first time screenprinters, students in Immigration as a Social and Structural Determinant of Health collaborated with community partners like Black Alliance for Just Immigration, El Refugio, Sur Legal, and many more to utilize screenprinting as a tool for public health. In addition to Saturday’s pop-up event the prints will be on view, along with a student-led screenprinting station, at the Emory Arts & Social Justice Showcase. Come celebrate our students and the stellar cohort of Arts & Social Justice artists, faculty and students. Hope to see you at the showcase, hosted by Switchyards Downtown, on Tuesday, Dec. 5th, 6-9PM. Learn more and register here.

Thank you for reading and spending time with me here.

Warmly,

KTM