Nontsikelelo Mutiti ’12 MFA

Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwean-born designer, visual artist, and educator whose conceptual approach to design spans the mediums of print, moving-image, web design, fine art, and community engagement. Mutiti maintains a research-based studio practice which facilitates both design commissions and independent projects, foregrounding research, experimentation, and learning with colleagues and mentees.

Mutiti considers her teaching practice an extension of her studio practice and strives to bring the same interdisciplinarity and opportunities for collaboration to her students. Mutiti has held assistant professorships at Virginia Commonwealth University and Purchase College, State University of New York. Experienced in the work of institution building, Mutiti has also initiated several platforms that foster collaborative projects between artists and scholars across the globe. She co-founded and was the artistic director of Black Chalk & Co., a creative agency that brought together writers, artists, designers, academics, and technologists with a mutual interest in publishing, curating conversations, and exhibitions.