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Education
2018 International School of Transnational Decolonial Black Feminism, Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil
2018 MFA, Printmaking, Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design
2015 BFA, Printmaking, Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Graduate of Tufts University Victim's of Violence Crisis Counselor Certification Program
Collegiate Teaching
2019-present Spelman College, Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture
Courses: Materials and Concepts / Sculpture / Installation / Art Process and Practice / Contemporary Art Making Strategies / Division of the Arts 1st Year Seminar / Projects in Hand Papermaking / Portfolio Criticism I & II (Senior Thesis)
2019 - 2022 Spelman College, Art Program Director, Department of Art and Visual Culture
2018 Virginia Commonwealth University, Adjunct Faculty, Art Foundations
2018 Rhode Island School of Design, Instructor of Record ‘Principle as Practice’, letterpress printmaking studio and Black Feminist Thought seminar
Visiting Artist
2024 The University of Texas at Austin,Guest Artist In Print, Course: Contemporary Issues in Print
2022 Georgia State University, Virtual Visiting Artist, Course: 3D Design
2022 The University of Texas at Austin, Virtual Visiting Artist, Course: Contemporary Issues in Print
2020 Rhode Island School of Design, Virtual Visiting Artist, Course: Senior Printmaking Seminar
2020 Valdosta State, Virtual Visiting Artist, Course: Art Appreciation
2020 Longwood University, Visiting Artist, Courses: Personal Narratives in Print and Social Justice in Print Media
Select Workshops
2023 Penland School of Craft, Paper, Collage and The Archive, Penland, NC
2023 Dieu Donne, Parts of the Whole: Quilting, Collage and Accumulation, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Fibers & Fragments, Atlanta, GA
2022 Women’s Studio Workshop, Oral Histories and Alt. Fibers: Experiments in Papermaking, Rosendale, NY
2021 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Experiments in Papermaking, Snowmass Village, CO
2021 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Fluid Sculpture, Virtual Workshop
2020 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Pulp Painting Virtual Demo, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Art 180, Alter Egos, Richmond, VA
Select Artist Talks / Panels
2024 The University of Texas at Austin, ‘Fiber Work: Paper, Textiles, and Ancestrality’
2023 Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, ‘Assembly’ Artist Talk w/ Erika Lynne Hanson and Vincent Mirranda
2022 Westobou, ‘Kin,Spirit, Seed’ Artist Talk w/ Nydia Blas
2022 Virginia Commonwealth University, Material as Memory for Southern Exigency, Artist Conversation w/ Sonya Yong James
2022 Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, ‘Reunion’ Artist Talk
2021 93rd Annual National Technical Association Conference: Broadening Participation in STEM, Valuing HBCUs, ‘Craft Based Technologies’
2021 The University of Alabama, Flow Tuscaloosa Symposium
2021 Atlanta Contemporary, She is Here: Project Spaces Discussion
2020 Spelman College Museum, Inspired By: Excavating Spirit w/ Daricia Mia DeMarr and Kelly Taylor Mitchell
2020 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Virtual Arts Salon
2020 Longwood University, ‘Oral History, The Sensorial, and Kinship’
Solo Shows
2023-2024 Memory Worker, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
2022 Kin, Spirit, Seed, Westobou Art Center, Augusta, GA
2022 Preaching to the Choir, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2021 Reunion, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2018 Preface, Outlook Gallery, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Select Group Shows
2024 Through Lines, African Diaspora Museum of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
2024 Material Memory, Swan Coach Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2023 A Tremulous Force, Art Papers @ Temporary Studios, Atlanta, GA
2023 When PRINT meets Paper, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
2022 -23 Rebirth, Peters Street Station (Hidden Gallery 333), Atlanta, GA
2022 Arlington Biennial: Time and Attention, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
2022 At Night I Dream in Color, The Lola, Atlanta, GA
2022 Flow Tuscaloosa, The Paul Bryant Museum at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2022 Southern Exigency, The Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2021 Prints for Protest, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Defying the Shadow, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2021 Juried Exhibition, Callanwolde Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2020 She is Here, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2020 We Are More Than A Moment, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2020 National Juried Exhibition, The Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
2019 Wordplay, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Art by Women, Anderson Brickler Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2019 Prints for Protest, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Press On!, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA
2018 New Contemporaries, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2018 Black America Under Deconstruction, Meek Eaton Black Archives and Museum, Tallahassee, FL
2018 Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
2018 We Thought of You, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2018 Where's Your Privilege, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2018 Between Us, Not Gallery, Print Austin, Austin, TX
2017-18 Pure as a Seagull's Belly, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2017 Black Arts Showcase, Leyung Gallery, Providence, RI
2017 Printfest, IPCNY, New York, NY
2017 Dismantled, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2017 Our America, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2016 Amplify & Magnify, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2016 Well Read Women, Project Row House, Houston, TX
2016 Mutual Encounters, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2016 Common Multiples, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2015 More Than This, Industry Labs, Cambridge, MA
Public and Private Collections
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
Artists’ Book Collection of Alisa Banks
Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA
SMFA @ Tufts Special Collections, Boston, MA
The Walker Art Center Library, Minneapolis, MN
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
RISD Museum, Prints, Drawings and Photographs Collection, Providence, RI
Providence Public Library, Special Collections, Providence, RI
Brigham and Womens' Hospital, Boston, MA
Fleet Library, Special Collections, Providence, RI
Select Awards and Residencies
2024 African Diaspora Museum of Atlanta and The Judith Alexander Foundation, The Nellie Mae Rowe Seed Award, Atlanta, GA
2024 The University of Texas at Austin, Guest Artist in Print Program, Austin, TX
2023-2024 Emory University, Arts & Social Justice Fellow, Atlanta, GA
2023-2024 Midtown Heart of the Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Atlanta, GA
2022 Artadia, Atlanta Artadia Awardee
2022 American Academy in Rome, Spelman College Affiliate Fellowship, Rome, Italy
2021-22 SMFA at Tufts, Traveling Fellow, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2021 Women’s Studio Workshop, Artist-in-Residence, Rosendale, NY
2020-21 Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Working Artist Project Fellow, Atlanta, GA
2020 Spelman College, Carnegie/Rockefeller Division Priority Award, Atlanta, GA
2019-present Atlanta Contemporary, Artist-in-Residence, Atlanta, GA
2019 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Artist-in-Residence, Snowmass, CO
2018 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Artist-In-Residence, Minneapolis, MN
Membership
2021-2023 Rhode Island School of Design, Society of Presidential Fellows, Mentor
2020- present Prints for Protest, Board Member, Leadership Board
2020- 2021 North American Hand Papermakers, Exhibitions Committee Member
2019- 2023 Hand Papermaking Inc., Board Member, Board of Directors, Black Writers Fellowship, Mentor
Select Bibliography
Arts ATL Staff. “Spring Preview: Four Atlanta creatives to watch this arts season”, ArtsATL, 2024. https://www.artsatl.org/2024-spring-preview-four-atlanta-creatives-to-watch/
Higgins, Sarah. “Masking Practice .” Art Papers , 2023.
Editorial Staff. “Meet Kelly Taylor Mitchell …”, Shoutout Atlanta, 2022. https://shoutoutatlanta.com/meet-kelly-taylor-mitchell-artist-asst-prof-of-art-and-visual-culture-art-program-director-at-spelman-college/
Mitchell, Kelly Taylor, guest editor. Hand Papermaking: Call & Respond, Issue 2, Volume 36, 2022.
Felicia Feaster. “Spotlight Shines on Women Artists, Curators, and Galleries this Fall”, Atlanta Journal Constitution, 27 Sept. 2021. https://www.ajc.com/life/arts-culture/spotlight-shines-on-women-artists-curators-and-gallery-owners-this-fall/R2GMZSAZJ5H4DFDNIOOI2L2DKM/
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of ASHLEY'S Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. Random House, 2021.
Kumaradoss-Hohauser, Miriam, editor. “Visual Art: Bathing in Lake Drummond, Offerings #2 .” Apogee Journal , no. 15 , 2021, apogeejournal.org/digital/.
Blythe, Sarah Ganz, and Amy Pickworth , editors. “Artists on Art .” Manual: Shadow, no. 14, 2020.
Clark, Naya. “Kelly Taylor Mitchell Displays Care for Ritual, History, and Diaspora.” Naya the Writer, 8 Oct. 2020, www.nayaclark.com/post/kelly-taylor-mitchell-displays-care-for-ritual-history-and-diaspora.
Bentley, Rosalind. “Local Artists Let Pandemic, Social Change Influence Their Work.” AJC, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 17 Aug. 2020, www.ajc.com/life/local-artists-create-works-to-capture-pandemic-social-change/KSMN52F6JNCQNFSPWIXX77TTS4/.
Staff, Burnaway. “News: July 21, 2020.” Burnaway, 14 Oct. 2020, burnaway.org/daily/news-in-brief-july-21-2020/.
Select Publications as Author
Mitchell , Kelly Taylor. “Separated By A Century .” Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch , Yale University Press and RISD Museum , 2024.
Mitchell, Kelly Taylor. “An Invitation: Ancestral Mapping”. Burnaway. November 2023.
Mitchell , Kelly Taylor. “Rooted & Returning: A Conversation with Krista Franklin.” Hand Papermaking , January 2022.
Mitchell , Kelly Taylor, and Adebunmi Gbadebo . “Spirit Sisters in Conversation .” Hand Papermaking , July 2021.