Many Hands: Collaborative Pulp Painting with Kelly Taylor Mitchell
August 17 - August 21
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Many Hands: Collaborative Pulp Painting – Kelly Taylor Mitchell
Dates: August 17 – 21, 2026
Studio: Papermaking
Tuition: Sliding Scale, $450 – $1300
Lab fee: $150
Class limit: 6
Many Hands is a pulp painting workshop that emphasizes collaborative process. This workshop challenges the notion of an isolated artist practice and alternatively invites participants to work together to create a large-scale collaborative handmade paperwork. This collaborative papermaking project will center improvisation and intuition as aesthetic guides. We will look to artists and writers who articulate the power of prioritizing the act, the feeling, and the experience of doing over a fixation on outcomes. Tools like prompt-based free writing, reading and discussion will support our collaborative and process orientated exploration. Overbeaten linen and flax fibers will be used to explore techniques in pigmentation, sheet formation and various pulp painting techniques. This workshop is a great fit for artists who want to explore not just papermaking, but the creative process. It is essential that participants are eager and open to collaboration.
Papermaking is a wet process; participants should be prepared with waterproof or water-safe shoes and clothing. This workshop will involve prolonged periods of standing, often requiring repeated movements in the upper body, and the maneuvering of heavy items. The instructor is available to collaborate/accommodate to ensure student safety/comfort.
This workshop is currently in the week-long members-only registration period. Registration will open to the public on February 4th.
Artist
Kelly Taylor Mitchell
Kelly Taylor Mitchell is an artist and educator living and working between Atlanta, GA and San Juan, Puerto Rico. An Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College, her most recent exhibition Kelly Taylor Mitchell: mouth wide open is on view through April 2026 at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mitchell has been the recipient of the Nellie Mae Rowe Prize, Atlanta Artadia Awardee, Spelman College Affiliate Fellowship at The American Academy in Rome and the Working Artist Project Fellowship at The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia. Her work is found in museum collections and in publications like Burnaway, Art Papers, and Hand Papermaking.
