Anicka Austin is an artist and archivist. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Carolina Academic Library Associates fellowship, graduating in May 2020 with a Master of Science in Library Science. She is currently working as visiting archivist for the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. A focus on embodied archives and the tension between ephemerality and documentation grew from the seeds of creative process as a 2017-2018 WonderRoot Hughley Fellow. Works from the Hughley fellowship were presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and the Zuckerman Museum of Art’s Fine Arts Gallery (Kennesaw, GA).
She was an Ansley Park Distinguished Fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in 2017 and a 2015-2018 Lucky Penny Work Room resident artist. This project was created for the 2021-2022 Art on the Atlanta Beltline Scholar-in-Residency.
Anicka Austin in rehearsal of Faest choreographed by Bella Dorado for the High Museum's public lawn space; photography by Alan Kimara Dixon
This project was supported and funded by Art on the Atlanta BeltLine's Scholar-in-Residency program.
