Discipline: Visual Art

Garry Mitchell

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Yarmouth, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982
More: www.garrymitchell.com
Garry Mitchell is a graduate of University of Hawaii and Pratt Institute, and has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work center, among other places, and grants from the Ford Foundation, the Massachusetts Arts Council, the Arizona Arts Commission, and the Maryland Commission on the Arts. He’s exhibited in many cities, including New York (Barbara Toll Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Damon Brandt Gallery, the Drawing Center, Claudia Carr Gallery, and Art in General,), in Boston (Alpha Gallery), and Tokyo (Japanese International art Expo, and Zephyrus Contemporary Art). In Maine, he’s been included in Biennials at the Portland Museum of Art, and Maine Center for Contemporary Art. He has had solo exhibitions with the Colby College Museum of Art, University of Maine-Farmington, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, and ICON Contemporary Art. (ICON represents Mitchell’s work in Maine). Garry teaches studio art at Colby College.

Studios

Cheney

Garry Mitchell worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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