Pavlo Stasiouk/Credit: www.pavlostasiouk.com

(KAIR)--A visual artist, a folk singer, an iconographer, and philosopher are several skills the new Atchison Art Association's Artist in Residence brings to the City he now calls home.

Molly Porter, Executive Director for the art association says the artist, whose residency was announced publicly just prior to last weekend, has relocated to Atchison, where he will serve in the artist in residency role for the next two years.

Porter says the residency is part of the association's goal of expanding art in the Atchison community, including the support of an art based scholarship and other initiatives.

Stasiouk, the Artist in Residence, will serve in that role for the next two years, working at Atchison's historic Muchnic Gallery.