Kate Mitchell

katemitchellprints@gmail.com

http://www.katemitchellart.com

 

Education:

Bachelor of Arts, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, May 2017

• Art Major (Printmaking focus) and Creative Writing minor
• Dean’s List, 2013-2017
• Participated in Art Department’s honors thesis program
• GPA 3.89

Merry Moor Winnett Scholarship recipient, 2016

Guilford College Art Appreciation Club Merit Award (community women’s organization), 2016

North Carolina Association for Higher Education & Disabilities Scholarship recipient, 2015

Eugene Thompson Scholarship recipient, 2013

Exhibitions:

Enlarged copy of print featured in portrait gallery show, Tanger Center for Preforming Arts, Greensboro, NC, 2020

Printed Image 7 Juried Show, Sabatini Gallery of Topeka Library, Topeka, KS, October, 2018

Winter Show, GreenHill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC, December 2017

Guilford College Art Department Senior Thesis Exhibition, Bauman Galleries, May 2017

Guilford College Annual Art Department Juried Student Show, Founders Hall, Nov. 2015, 2016

Awarded Honorable Mention in Printmaking category -2016

Awarded First Place in Printmaking category – 2015

Solo exhibition of prints and drawings, Friends Homes-Guilford, Greensboro, NC, April 2016

Gave a talk about my work during the opening reception

Are We Guilford, Guilford Undergraduate Symposium (GUS), Hege Library, April 2016

Invited artist to help conceptualize an anti-oppression monument for campus

Portraits in Ebony, Guilford College Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, April 2015

Invited to draw portraits of campus leaders of color during a GUS event organized by Tawanna Maryland ’17. Drawings were exhibited in the College’s gallery and offered for sale in a silent auction to support Greensboro’s Jackson Middle School arts program.

Congressional Art Competition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, 2013

Awarded Judge’s Special Merit

 

Related Experience:

-Curated Guilford College Student Art Exhibition for Friends Home Guilford gallery, 2017

–Writer for Hand/Eye, the Guilford College Art Department student-run blog, 2016, 2017

-Artwork accepted for publication in plain china, a national anthology of the best undergraduate writing & art, published by Virginia Commonwealth University (Dec. 2016, Nov. 2017)

-Artwork accepted for publication in The Greenleaf Review, Guilford College’s student run annual literary and arts magazine; interior artwork, 2015, 2016, 2017; cover art, 2015

-Created graphics for:

• Steph Olejniczak Makeup website and business cards, 2016
• Serendipity music festival t-shirt, Guilford College, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Peace & Conflict Studies Department Peace Week t-shirts, Guilford College, 2015, 2016
• Quaker Leadership Scholars Program fundraising t-shirt, Friends Center, 2015

– Volunteered and donated artworks for silent auctions, Family Support Network of Central Carolina (FSNCC) fundraisers 2015, 2016, 2017

-Led workshops for siblings of children with disabilities to express their relationship with their siblings through art; curated exhibition at Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC, 2013

-Designed & painted mural in the Cone Health Outpatient Rehabilitation Center’s Pediatric Unit, Greensboro, NC, 2013