Day With(out) Art - Reflections: Kenneth Mitchell

The Folk Art Museum sponsors an annual Visual AIDS artist talk and presentation for Day With(out) Art to the students of La Guardia High School writing class; after returning to La Guardia, the students draw on this experience to create their own poetry book.

Kenneth Mitchell is a representational artist who has been strongly influenced by the abstract painting of Jackson Pollock and Willem DeKooning. Through his work, he finds beauty in things that are not traditionally considered to be beautiful. As an artist living with AIDS, he works with a sense of the clock ticking and of the importance of each day.