Joy Keys chats with Artist Mickalene Thomas

Chat with Artist Mickalene Thomas about her sparkling creations on "Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys"-podcast

2010-09-03

PHILADELPHIA, PA, September 03, 2010 (Press-News.org) Joy Keys chats with Artist Mickalene Thomas
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DATE: Saturday September 6, 2010

TIME: 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. ET

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Ms. Thomas received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2000 and her M.F.A. in painting from Yale University in 2002.

In 2002--&amp;#8208;2003, she participated in the Artist--&amp;#8208; in--&amp;#8208;Residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Recent awards include the Rema Hort Mann Grant in 2007, Joan Mitchell Grant and the Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award in 2009.

Residencies include the Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program at Giverny, France through the Art Production Fund in 2011.

She is represented by several art galleries throughout the U.S., Lehmann Maupin in New York, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago and Susanne Vielmetter Projects in Los Angeles.
She was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art to create a new work for the façade of The Modern on 53rd Street for 2010.

Her work is in many public collections including the Guggenheim Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Brooklyn Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.; Yale University Art Gallery; and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her work has been featured in various catalogues and reviewed in ArtForum, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NY Arts, Modern Painters, and Whitewall among others.

Website: http://mickalenethomas.com/
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