Munson is thrilled to welcome 2024-25 Artist-in-Residence Tina Mitchell! Mitchell has just completed her MFA at the School of Visual Arts, New York City and holds a BFA in studio arts from Syracuse University.

Mitchell’s artistic practice is inspired by her passion for art education and experiences teaching art to many ages and at numerous institutions. Her artwork manipulates representations of space in order to explore their possibilities for expressing joy, excitement, or fear. There is an emphasis on the combination of sculpture and painting that blurs pictorial space with physical space and rejects predetermined structures through painting and application of color. Mitchell is greatly influenced by the teachings of painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus school, and she is developing a community arts class that breaks down Abstraction into a series of experiments and critical thinking. Learn more about Mitchell at tinamitchell.org.

About the Artist-in-Residence Program

The AIR program is designed for artists or recent visual arts master of fine arts graduates interested in working in art education, community arts, and college curricula while receiving support to develop a vibrant, self-directed studio practice. 

Programming for the AIR includes presenting a public lecture, teaching community arts education classes, holding a public open-studio event, and designing and implementing accessible community projects with various departments on campus. Artists receive financial support, housing, meals, studio, and an exhibition in the Museum of Art. 

The Munson Artist-in-Residence Program is made possible with the generous support of Sunithi S. Bajekal.