Joan Mitchell Center

09/01/2026

Join our New Orleans-based team managing the Joan Mitchell Center Residency! We are seeking an Artist-Centered Program Manager—a key role responsible for the administration, assessment, and refinement of the residency and public programming. All details here:

The Artist Centered Program Manager at the Joan Mitchell Center (JMC) is responsible for the administration, assessment and refinement of JMC residency…

08/31/2026

with 2026 Artist-in-Residence Dillon: “I am a collector, hoarder, dilly-dallyer. Through assemblage, I’m able to understand existence and how relationships transform us… I do a lot of shifting, seeing where things want to be, reconstructing and deconstructing the sculpture, it starts to show me what it wants to be.”

Dillon (Dillon.) is an artist based in New York City and was a Summer 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center. This interview was filmed at the Joan Mitchell Center in July 2026. Learn more about Dillon’s work at dillonstudioart.com.

Interview: Sly Watts
Videography: Cfreedom Photography
Editing: Mahsa Biglow Ara
Editing & Production: Melissa Dean
Music: Jomon Grove by The Mini Vandals (CC0 license)

All artwork shown © Dillon, 2026

ArtVideo

08/28/2026

with 2026 Artist-in-Residence Jessica Monette: “My practice spans painting, sculpture, installation work, and I’m usually thinking about how to hold on to culture through displacement. And so a lot of my work is grounded in the events of Hurricane Katrina. In my life, that’s one of the things that displaced me. I consider myself displaced still, and my family is dispersed…”

Jessica Monette (Jessica Monette) is an artist based in East Palo Alto, California, and was a Summer 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center. This interview was filmed at the Joan Mitchell Center in July 2026. Learn more about Monette’s work at jessicamonette.com.

Interview: Sly Watts
Videography: Cfreedom Photography
Editing: Mahsa Biglow Ara
Editing & Production: Melissa Dean
Music: Metamorphosis by Quincas Moreira (CC0 license)

All artwork shown © Jessica Monette, 2026

ArtVideo

08/21/2026

with 2026 Artist-in-Residence Fred Liang: “I’m looking at plants as a kind of a surrogate for migration. These plants are taken out of their original roots and you never know where they’re from. And yet you embrace the plant, but not the people that came from there.”

Fred H. C. Liang (Fred H.C. Liang) is an artist based in Boston, MA and was a Summer 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center. This interview was filmed at the Joan Mitchell Center in July 2026. Learn more about Liang’s work at hcl-studio.com.

Interview: Sly Watts
Videography: Cfreedom Photography
Editing: Mahsa Biglow Ara
Editing & Production: Melissa Dean
Music: Aletheia (Unforgetting) by Devon Church (CC0 license)

All artwork shown © Fred Liang, 2026

08/18/2026

with 2026 Artist-in-Residence Nadrea Njoku: “Two of the things that I really want to explore in my practice are fairy tales and folklores, and the realities of the interior lives of Black women. I’m interested in the silences and the gaps in Black women’s lives and lifting up that magic that we see in fairy tales.”

Nadrea Njoku (Nadrea) is an artist based in Atlanta, GA, and was a Summer 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center. This interview was filmed at the Joan Mitchell Center in July 2026. Learn more about Nadrea Njoku’s work at nadreanjoku.com, or subscribe to her Substack through the link in her bio: Nadrea.

Interview: Sly Watts
Videography: Cfreedom Photography
Editing: Mahsa Biglow Ara
Production & Editing: Melissa Dean
Music: Electrosamba by Quincas Moreira (CC0 license)

All artwork shown © Nadrea Njoku, 2026

ArtVideo

07/01/2026

Meet Fred H. C. Liang (Fred H.C. Liang), a Boston-based artist who is in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center through July 31.

Liang writes: “My current work centers on the transformative potential of paper—a material that fluidly transitions between two-dimensional surfaces and three-dimensional forms. Rooted in the traditional Chinese paper-cutting technique of Jianzhi, my practice incorporates drawing, printing, and collage to create layered, multidimensional compositions.”

Fred H. C. Liang received a BFA from the University of Manitoba, and an MFA from Yale University. His honors include Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Grants in painting, printmaking, and works on paper. Liang has exhibited his work at the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire, Inside Out Museum in Beijing, ICA Boston, Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin, Addison Museum of American Art in Massachusetts, XC.HuA Gallery in Berlin, and Jerez de la Frontera Gallery at the University of Cadiz. Liang has participated in residencies at the Museo de Arte Contemporary in Santiago de Chile and the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai. His work has been featured in Huffington Post, WBUR Open Studio, and The Boston Globe. Learn more about his work at Fred H.C. Liang and hcl-studio.com.

Pictured here:

1 – Fred H. C. Liang

2 – Fred H. C. Liang, Nushu, 2015. Paper cut, paper book, wood, 140 x 220 x 140 inches.

3 – Fred H. C. Liang, Everything Everywhere at Once, 2022. Paper cut, mirrors, LED light, 12 min video projection (installation detail view), 36 x 36 x 36 inches in a room sized 120 x 140 inches.

4 – Fred H. C. Liang, We The People, 2024. Acrylic sheet with silver metal laminate, LED light, 45 x 32 x 32 inches (installation detail view)

5 – Fred H. C. Liang, Nushu, A Family History, 2025. Chinese Tuanzi Paper, paper cut text, LED light, acrylic sheet, wood benches, 24 x 45 x 45 inches.

06/26/2026

Meet Dillon Dillon (), an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City, who is in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center through July 31.

Dillon writes: “My work draws deeply from African diasporic spirituality, Caribbean cultural memory, ecological cycles, fantasy, and the symbolic power of everyday materials. Through abstraction, I protect what is sacred and affirm that not all truths must be rendered visible to be honored.”

A classically trained dancer from Alvin Ailey and Harlem School of the Arts, Dillon Dillon studied at the Professional Performing Arts School and is currently pursuing her BFA at Parsons School of Design. Her practice spans sculpture, photography, performance, and ritual, using found materials, botanical elements, and ancestral technologies to explore transformation, memory, and protection of Black cultural codes. She has exhibited at Root Division and SOMArts in San Francisco, and in New York at Fridman Gallery, Flux Factory, and Longwood Gallery. Her project “The Very Dirty Garden” extends her studio into the public, offering wellness-based activations rooted in nature, sensuality, and ancestral healing. Through abstraction and assemblage, she resists extractive systems, building immersive environments that honor diasporic legacy. Her work operates as refuge and resistance, creating space for presence, liberation, and communal restoration. Learn more about her work .

Pictured here:

1 – Dillon Dillon

2 – Dillon Dillon, Beach Disco, 2025. Found cylinder vase, foraged and gifted seashells, quartz crystal, 24 x 4 inches.

3 – Dillon Dillon, Untitled, 2025. Found objects, 8 x 8 inches.

4 – Dillon Dillon, Oyas watching, 2025. Found objects, empty personal alcohol bottles, used candles and fresh flower, 6 x 8 inches.

5 – Dillon Dillon, rose gag, 2024. iPhone printed image, dried rose petals, burnt plastic sleeve, 6 x 8 inches.

06/24/2026

Let’s start getting to know the Summer 2026 Artists-in-Residence! Meet Michael Arcega (), a San Francisco-based artist who is in residence at the Center through July 31.

Arcega writes: “My creative research investigates history, geography, language, and power dynamics through the lens of my immigrant journey. I employ anthropological methods that defamiliarize the ordinary and domesticate the foreign, creating work that invites curiosity and investigation.”

Michael Arcega uses object-metaphors to make sculptures, installations, and activations that critique historic and political narratives. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally and has been discussed in academic journals, art publications, and a range of media platforms. He is a Professor of Art at San Francisco State University, where he heads the Sculpture and Expanded Practice area. Arcega holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, an MFA from Stanford University, and maintains a studio in San Francisco. He is a recipient of a Rainin Arts Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Artadia grant, SFAC Artist Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, and Murphy Cadogan Fine Arts Fellowship, among others. Learn more about his work at and www.arcega.us.

Pictured here:

1 – Michael Arcega

2 – TNT Traysikel, 2019 - ongoing. Collaboration with Michael Arcega, Rachel Lastimosa and Paolo Asuncion. Customized motorcycle & (Philippine-made) sidecar, hand-painted graphics, LED light effects, karaoke system, landscape and community, 5 x 5 x 4.5 feet.

3 - Michael Arcega, Trophy Room, 2024. Previously owned items collected from Nacirema territory (N. America), enamel paint and Spam luncheon meat, 10 x 16 x 10 feet.

4 – Michael Arcega, Anthroposeen (detail), 2019. Salvaged laboratory glass, wooden observational sculptures, steel, one-way mirrors, LED lights and former medical school, 8 x 16 x 16 feet.

5 – Michael Arcega, Trike of the Medusa (after Géricault), 2019. Salvaged tricycle, 6 monitors, AV equipment and videos made during the period of residency, 8 x 7 x 5 fee.

06/23/2026

This week, we welcomed the Summer Artists-in-Residence to the Joan Mitchell Center! From June 22 to July 31, the Center will host these 9 artists in our Artists-in-Residence program:

Michael Arcega, San Francisco, CA, Michael Arcega

Dillon Dillon, Bronx, NY, Dillon.

Michel Droge, Arrowsic, ME, Michel Droge

Fred H. C. Liang, Boston, MA, Fred H.C. Liang

Jessica Monette, East Palo Alto, CA,

Nadrea Njoku, Atlanta, GA, Nadrea

Rachel Parish, Atlanta, GA, Rachel

SÉAN, New Orleans, LA, SÉAN

Analia Segal, Brooklyn, NY, Analia Segal

Save the date for Evening Open Studios on Wednesday, July 22 from 6-8pm, when you can come meet the artists and see what they are up to in their studios!

Photos by Josiah Gagosian

06/10/2026

with 2026 Artist-in-Residence Trish Tillman: “I think the idea of punk and growing up in the DIY scene and activist scene in Washington, DC really solidified this idea of expressing yourself. There is a connection between punk and burlesque and the type of radical action that allows you to take ownership of your body and become a little more powerful.”

Trish Tillman (.tillman) is an artist based in New York City and is a Spring 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center. This interview was filmed at the Joan Mitchell Center in March 2026. Learn more about Tillman’s work at trishtillman.com. Her work is up now in the group show SURFACE TENSION at .art Gallery in Lexington, KY, through July 18.

Interview: Sly Watts
Videography: Cfreedom Photography
Editing & Production: Melissa Dean
Music: Nebula by Density & Time (CC0 license)

All artwork shown © Trish Tillman, 2026