Studio Apprentices: From the 2022/2023 Working Artist Project
12pm - 5pm
This exhibition features works by emerging artists from the MOCA GA 2022/2023 Working Artist Project. WAP Fellows Caleb Jamel Brown, Jessica Caldas and Ato Ribeiro mentored these carefully selected Studio Apprentices during their award year.
2022/2023 Working Artist Project Studio Apprentices:
Introverted Crafter
ABOUT The Working Artist Project
The Working Artist Project (WAP) is an awards program to support established visual artists of merit who reside in the metropolitan Atlanta 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. A guest curator selects three visual artists to receive the Award. Representing our city’s best and brightest; these artists are supported with an exhibition, promotion, studio apprentice(s), and a major stipend to create work over the course of the year. Major funding for this program is provided by the Charles Loridans Foundation, the Antinori Foundation, and the AEC Trust.
ABOUT The Studio Apprenticeship
Each established artist selected for the WAP program mentors one or more emerging artists over the course of their fellowship year, creating partnerships in which both mentors and mentees can benefit from sharing knowledge, skills, ideas, experience, and the potential for creative collaboration. Through the WAP program, the apprentices each gain paid working experience with the Fellows and an exhibit of their work at MOCA GA during a group exhibition at the end of the following year.
Featured Image: Detail of “SICK!!!,”2022-2024, 490 Empty 4 mg disintegrating Ondansetron tablet packets collected between April 2022 and June 2024, 372 jump rings, approximately 43 hours of construction, and 490 times the artist felt nauseous, 23 x 54 inches by De’De’ Ajavon