

JOAN MITCHELL CENTENNIAL + CONVENING
Joan Mitchell Foundation
In 2025 the Joan Mitchell Foundation launched a series of programs, events, and announcements to
celebrate the centennial of Joan Mitchell’s birth, aimed at increasing appreciation and study of the artist’s life and work and amplifying the connections between her legacy and the work of living artists.
Luce Productions worked with the Joan Mitchell Foundation team to help develop and manage the production plan for the year-long series of events in Paris, New York, Chicago, and New Orleans. In addition, Luce Productions helped produce a three-day field-wide convening on artists’ legacies that welcomed 150 visual artists, archivists, curators, administrators, artist estate stewards, funders, and other cultural workers in an open forum for resource-sharing and exchange. The goals of the convening were to map existing resources and innovative approaches for artists' legacies, while advocating for more training, funding, and visibility for this topic within the arts ecosystem. It became a community and field-building effort, one that participants vowed to continue shaping together.
Images courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation.