Mimi Oritsky received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts and a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She studied Sculpture at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts). Oritsky has received Purchase Awards from the Reading Public Museum, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts/Arcadia University and Residence Fellowships from the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Artists for Environment Foundation. She worked for Crisis Intervention Network, Inc. in Philadelphia neighborhoods with the indigenous youth to design and create urban murals commissioned by the City for subway stations and outdoor recreational sites. Oritsky lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

I am interested in creating fresh work on-site at the Schuylkill River Banks with AiO. I’d like to work at ground level with my viewpoints created from above and below. My process depends on this vision. I would welcome the opportunity to work within a group of other artists as well as people who are observing the process and production. I expect that people who are observing might also have questions regarding my creative and decision-making processes. I would welcome inquiries as positive interruptions of thought that could very well lead to conversations regarding the development of a work of art. This would benefit both the artist and the viewer.