Mallory Kimmel

Mallory Kimmel is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and writer who makes socially engaged work addressing and eradicating exclusionary design practices in the built environment to make rest accessible to all. Her works have been exhibited in The U.S. State Department Inaugural Gallery, The University of Maryland, George Mason University, California College of the Arts, The Umbrella Art Fair, The Peale, and Minnesota Street Projects. Kimmel’s writing has been published by E-flux, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, and BmoreArt Magazine. She has curated exhibitions collaboratively with The Phillips Collection, The Community College of Baltimore County, George Mason University, and Aggregate Space Gallery. She founded Do Less Press, a small press dedicated to artist literature on power, labor, rest, and healing. She teaches design at Lehigh University and serves on the Design Committee for the College Art Association. Her work was selected for residencies with The Nicholson Project, The Social Studies Residency, and the Outreach Artist Residency in the Arctic Circle, funded by the National Science Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.