Working Artist Project 2010/2011

MOCA GA is pleased to announce the 2011/2011 Working Artist Project Winners. Congratulations to:

Katherine Mitchell

Labyrinth VI for Stein with Grey, 2004, Watercolor, chin-colle and graphite on paper

Katherine Mitchell is an Atlanta-based artist. She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and a MFA from Georgia State University. A retired professor from the Visual Arts Department at Emory University, she has been extensively exhibited in Atlanta, across the United States and abroad. Most recently, Mitchell was featured in the Georgia Council for the Arts publication, Georgia Masterpieces: Selected Works from Georgia Museums.

Micah Stansell

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Installation view of "Presynaptic Potential" at MOCA GA, 2010, Video work created for Le Flash, 2009
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Micah Stansell is an Atlanta-based artist and filmmaker living in College Park, Georgia. He received an MFA in Digital Filmmaking from Georgia State University. His work has screened in galleries and film festivals across the United States and as far away as Beijing, China. Stansell has also worked as a cinematographer with artists on projects and installations that have been exhibited locally and internationally.

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and Alan Caomin Xie

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Mandala no. 10, 2008, Oil on Canvas

Alan Caomin Xie is an Atlanta-based artist originally from China. He has been teaching and working as a painter in the United States since 1999. He received a BFA from the China Academy of Art in sculpture and a MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in painting. He currently serves as head of the art program at Clayton State University. He has been widely exhibited in both the United States and abroad, primarily in China..
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The 2010/2011 MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) is an awards program to support established visual artists of merit who reside in the Atlanta metropolitan area. This initiative provides an unparalleled level of support for individual artists, expands the Museum's mission, and promotes Atlanta as a city where artists can live, work and thrive. As with past years, jurors selected three visual artists to receive the award, representing our city's best and brightest. These artists will be supported with an exhibition, promotion, a studio assistant, and a major stipend to create work over the course of one year. This program is supported by a major grant from The Charles Loridans Foundation with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Allison Unruh, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) served as this year's guest juror.