In the next few weeks I'll be settling into my new studio at McGuffey Art Center. Studio 6B is large enough for me to begin holding classes and I can't wait! More details soon.

Excited to announce that my show, 'Small Stories', will open at New City Arts Initiative's Welcome Gallery in Charlottesville on October 4th. The exhibit brings together encaustic photography, fiber and mixed media pieces as vignettes that tell the story of a woman's life. The woman's name is Barbara. And she was the mother from whom I was estranged for decades. Bringing this show together helped to reconcile my experience as her daughter with the truth that had she been given the chance to be the woman she wanted to be our lives - and our relationship - might have been very different.

I'm proud to announce that I've been awarded a Melissa M. Lackman IEA Mentoring Grant and will be working with artist and mentor Michele Randall over the next six months to refine my studio practice and focus on my future as a working artist.

I'm excited to be in the company of outstanding Charlottesville area artists selected for Second Street Gallery's Teeny Tiny Trifecta 7. My three encaustic collages, 'Crow Gift' (pictured), 'Charming Disaster' and 'Crow Shadow' will be exhibited at Second Street as part of a fundraiser for the gallery through the month of September.

June 17: I'm thrilled to have been selected as the winner for this year's Streetlight Magazine Art Contest. Juror Deborah McLeod, Director of Chroma Projects had this to say about my work:

"Among the submissions that we received for the Streetlight Art Contest, Mimm Patterson’s work stood out. We were especially impressed with her encaustic collages, which offered visual complexity and layered meaning, and a quality of singularity or uniqueness.

Social Anxiety and Murder of Crows both create the sense of a hyper-stimuli ridden, obfuscated and conflicted realm, one that captures a fairly accurate portrait of the modern world we create for ourselves. But all of Patterson’s works offer her viewer a richness of surface and depth of plane that determines their visual success."

June 2024 - McGuffey Art Center's 'Cracked: The Incubator Show' opened on Friday, June 7th and runs through the end of the month.