About
Each year, leading artists will be selected to live and work with us on campus. Faculty,
students, staff, and local community members will be invited into artists' studios, to learn about and participate in the creation of cutting edge, public art. The residency pilot program, funded by EVPR and GVU/iPat grants, kicks off this term with
Micah and Whitney Stansell, longtime Atlanta residents known throughout the Southeast for their arresting large-scale projections on buildings and public surfaces that tell the stories of Atlanta’s past and present. Working with our students, the Stansells will complete a new work that will be projected in an outdoor setting on campus. The artists will also run a student workshop as well as give participate in a GVU brown bag artists’ panel about their work on March 2nd.
Artists Bio for our Spring 2023 Residents
Micah and Whitney Stansell’s body of work ranges from fibers, sculpture, painting and drawing, to single and multi-channel film and video works, and large public art installations. The work often explores ideas of family history, narrative traditions, and binary relationships that pull from contemporary issues that are influenced and informed by environment and location. The Stansells’ work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Art in America, Moviemaker Magazine, FiberARTS Magazine, and the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Exhibiting in galleries, museums, contemporary art centers, and film festivals, the Stansells’ work has been experienced in cities around the world including Beijing, Vienna, New York, and Atlanta. Recent honors include a Forward Arts Prize, Special Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, Artadia Award, MOCA Working Artist Project Award, Herradura Art Prize, NMWA 2020 Artist to Watch, and a Student Academy Award Nomination for their graduate thesis film. Their work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Cornell University, and SCAD-Atlanta, Lacoste France, and Hong Kong.
