Newsletter Welcome: Kelly Taylor Mitchell Studio

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Kelly Taylor Mitchell
October 26, 2023

Hi y’all, 

Welcome to my first newsletter. My summer instagram break turned into an indefinite sabbatical and I’ve been left with a desire to find more sustaining and nourishing ways to be engaged in my creative community. Here I will be occasionally passing along studio updates, happenings, announcements, and workshop opportunities. My hope is that this outreach is a conduit for connection. So please, write back, reach out, pop by my Midtown studio, etc… of course you are welcome read from a distance if that’s more your speed. Newsletters aren’t for everyone, don’t hesitate to unsubscribe at the bottom of this note if you don’t have the space in your emotional (or actual) inbox.

YOU’RE INVITED

Image: Detail of Kudzu Altar Cloth #2, 2023, flax, cotton, Georgia kudzu blowout and sequins. On view in Memory Worker. 

My Lyndon House Arts Foundation Fellowship solo show Memory Worker opens November 18th at 2PM at Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, GA — you’re invited! I have been preparing for this show for nearly a year and can’t wait to share new textile and handmade paper works. The exhibition will be on view until March 12th, 2024.

Also! The Arts Papers group show, A Tremulous Force, closes this week at Temporary Studios. 

Image: Kudzu Window #2, Georgia kudzu, Georgia Spanish moss, Alabama river cane, flax, sequins, image transfer. On view in A Tremulous Force.

READ

My summer 2023 Art Papers interview with Sarah Higgins, Masking Practice, is now available to read online. Take a look, I would love to hear your thoughts.

You can also get your hands on the hard copy of Art Paper’s Summer 2023 Issue, ‘Refusal, Renewal’ if you’re craving good ol’ fashioned print.

Image: Mask #11, 2022, hand embroidered and beaded mask featured in Masking Practice

COMING SOON…

I am currently an Arts and Social Justice Fellow at Emory University. I have spent the semester collaborating with the incredible Dr. Zeidan in her course, Immigration as a Social and Structural Determinant of Health. Students are looking at the intersection of art and activism within the field of immigration and public health. Students will showcase their project ‘Screenprints for Public Health’ on December 5th, 6PM at Atlanta Switchyards Downtown, alongside the other fantastic collaborators in our 2023-2034 cohort. Registration link for the showcase coming soon.

 

Images: Screenprinting demo and student printing progress, Fall 2023.

NEAR YOU

I am so grateful that my artist’s book Between Starshine & Clay has been collected nationally, it may even be a library near you for viewing by appointment:

  • Duke University, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Durham, NC

  • The Cynthia Sears Collection, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA

  • Bowdoin College Special Collections Library, Brunswick, ME

  • The Fine Arts Library at Harvard, Cambridge, MA

  • Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College, Claremont, CA

  • Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, MA

  • SMFA @ Tufts Special Collections, Boston, MA

Image: Between Starshine & Clay, 2021. Unbound artist book. Original text, artist made cotton and kudzu paper, hand embroidery, screenprinting, and letterpress (polymer plate). Title borrowed from Lucille Clifton’s ‘Won’t You Celebrate with Me’.

More soonish…

With gratitude,

KTM