ATLANTA, GA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia is showing Miecznikowski: new works by 2017-2018 Working Artist Project Fellow Kirstin Mitchell. The exhibition takes place in the upper-level galleries at MOCA GA. Exhibition dates are July 14 – September 8, 2018.

Kirstin Mitchell is a painter, installation, and performance artist who creates experiential environments. Mitchell is a recent MOCA GA Working Artist Project Fellow and has a studio through the Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Program. She has performed with the support of the Franklin Furnace Fund in Manhattan, New York. Her work has been shown throughout the East Coast and Internationally, in Austria and Italy. Mitchell's work has been featured in publications including Art in America, Art Papers and Flash Art Magazines.

“Miecz” means “sword” dating back to the 9th century. Miecznikowski is a colorful and texturally playful installation that touches on identity and the interruption of atmosphere. Entombment and weightlessness question tradition and the body. Miecznikowski fantasizes a Polish narrative from the Middle Ages while highlighting a goofball blue collar immigration to the South.

Kirstin Mitchell selected by guest Curator Joey Orr, for the 2017-2018 Working Artist Project Fellowship
Joey Orr joined the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in 2017 as the Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Research, part of their Integrated Arts Research Initiative. His recent curatorial post was as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where his major project aligned three exhibitions around artistic inquiry (Chicago Works: Andrew Yang, MCA Screen: Camille Hennrot’s Grosse Fatigue, and Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination). Specifically trained in hybrid and artistic research methods, he received his MA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completed a practice-based, interdisciplinary PhD as an Arts and Sciences Fellow in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University.

MOCA GA’s Working Artist Project (WAP) was developed in support of mid-career or established artists in the Metropolitan Atlanta area. Each year the program is funded by the Charles Loridans Foundation and the Antinori Foundation with additional funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. An artist account is provided for each winner by Binders Art Supplies and Frames. The WAP fellowship program has supported 33 Fellows over the past 11 years. As a museum that is dedicated first and foremost to supporting Georgia’s contemporary artists, it is MOCA GA’s goal to encourage these artists to remain in our city to establish Atlanta as one of the best cities for launching a viable career in the arts.