Creatives at Work Artist Residency | Jim Mroczkowski

We would like to give a warm welcome to Jim Mroczkowski  as the sixth Artist-in-Residence in our Creatives at Work program. Jim will spend six weeks at Juniper Books. during October and November, creating new work inspired by their experience of the grocery and its community.

The residency will conclude with an exhibition at ArtSpeak Gallery, on display November 2– 9. A public workshop is also in development that will take place during this week!

This page will be updated as Jim’s residency progresses, so please check in for progress photos, reflections, and event announcements!

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Jim Mroczkowkski

JIM MROCZKOWSKI is a Windsor-based artist who began creating art at the age of five when
his family doctor gave him tempera paints, brushes and paper to create pictures for his mother
as she recovered from post-partum depression after the birth of Jim’s sister. His subsequent
belief that art can heal, transform, and enlighten continues to inform his practice to this very day.
Mroczkowski began his formal art education at the Ontario College of Art, where he was
mentored by notable Canadian artists Harold Town, John Newman, and Art Historian Joyce
Zemans. He later completed his BFA in Drawing & Painting at the University of Windsor
receiving guidance under the tutelage of Joseph De Angelis, Robert Ferraro and Susan Gold.
Furthering his studies at York University, he earned an MFA in Painting, receiving advice from
painters Kenneth Lochhead, Douglas Morton, Ronald Bloor, and conceptual artist Vera Frenkel,
and was awarded the Samuel Sarick Purchase Prize. Additionally, Mroczkowski holds a BED
degree in Art Education Curriculum and Instruction, and an MED degree in Art in Higher
Education from the University of Windsor.

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