Selected Exhibitions
2006-2007 The Gallery (Chattanooga, TN) 2005-2008 Carol Robinson Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
2004 The Krause Gallery (Atlanta, Ga.)
2004 *The Hambidge Center
(Rabun Gap, Ga.)
2004 Florida Artist Group 53rd Annual Exhibition (Atlantic Center for the Arts- Ft. Lauderdale, FI)
2003 Don't Sit In The Chair Show- Selby Gallery (Ringling School of Art and Design)
2003 Currents in Printmaking
(Roskamp Center for the Arts hosted by the Sarasota County Arts Council)
2002 ArtinBusiness- Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Arts Task Force (Legg Mason, Sarasota, FI)
2002 75tb Art Center "Jurors Show" (Longboat Key, FI)
2003 Florida Artist Group 52nd Annual Exhibition (The Art Center of At. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FI)
2002 75tb Sarasota Art Center Celebration (Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FI)
2002 The Longboat Key Art Center" Jurors Show" (Longboat Key, Florida Art Center, Longboat Key, FI.)
2002 Keller-Williams Benefit Exhibition for SP ARCC (The City Center of Sarasota, FI.)
2001 *One Person Exhibition: "Morris Mitchell's Art" (The Citrus Club, Orlando, FI.)
2000 The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL.
(First Thursday-Alpa Contempo: Definition, Destiny and Desire)
2000 Two - Person Exhibition: The First Show of Newfoundland Watercolors
(AMI, Sarasota, FI.)
1999 *One Person Exhibition -" Secrets" -The Art of Morris Mitchell
Sarasota Visual Arts Center, Sarasota,FI.
1999 Two- Person Exhibition
(Fulton Burt Gallery, Sarasota, FI.)
1998 *One Person Exhibition- The Creative Edge Presents Morris Mitchell
(The Creative Edge, Bradenton, FI.)
1997 * One Person Exhibition," Transformations"
(Meza Fine Art International, Coral. Gables, FI.) |
1997 JuriedGroup Show: Annual Florida Exhibition" (Boca Raton, Fl., Boca Museum)
1995 Two Person Exhibition: X-Communion
(Sarasota Main Street Books, Upper Level)
1993 * One Person Exhibition" Morris Mitchell"
(Manatee Community College, Bradenton, Fl.)
1991 * One Person Exhibition: "The Cutting Edge II"
(Gallery Des Artiste, West Palm Beach, Fl.)
1989 Invitational Group Show: " Florida Artist Group Annual Exhibition" (Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, Fl.)
1989 Invitational Group Show: "Artist Choose Artists '89" (Arts on The Park, Inc., Lakeland, FI)
1988 * Anderson Marsh Galleries, Inc. (St. Petersburg, Fl.)
1987 *One-Person Exhibition: " The Cutting Edge" LeeScarfone Gallery (University of Tampa, Tampa FI. - a Retrospective)
1986 Invitational Florida Arts Artist Show- Annual Exhibition (Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Fl.)
1986 Florida Artist Group Annual Exhibition
(Tampa, Fl.)Winner of the Tampa Reddi Arts Award
1985 Invitational Florida Arts Artist Show- Annual Exhibition (Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, FI.)
1985 Invitational Florida Artist Show (Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, FL)
1984 * St. Peters Living Room Gallery - one person Exhibition (New York, N.Y. Located in the St. Peters Unitarian Church)
1984 Juried Group Show:" Second Annual Watercolor Competition" (Ridge Art Center Winter Haven, Fl.)
1984 Invitational Florida Artist Show (Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Fl.)
1983 Group JuriedShow: "Statewide State Open Show"
(Ridge Art Center, Sarasota, FI.)
1983 Group Juried Show "Ridge Art Association"
(Winter Haven, Fl.) First Annual Watercolor Competition.
Winner of the Reddi Arts Award
1982 Juried Group Show: "Tampa "82"
(Tampa Museum of Art, openjuried show, Tampa, Fl.)
1982 Invitational: "Florida Artist group Annual EXhibition" (Boca Raton, FI.)
1981 "Invitational: Florida Artist Show" (Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Fl.)
1980 Invittltional Group Show: Hodgell-Hartman Gallery (Sarasota, Fl.)
1980 Four Sarasota Artists Polk County Mu.seulD (Lakeland, Fl.) |
1980 Jacksonville Art Museum "Invitational Group Show" (Jacksonville, FI.)
1980 " Invitational Florida Artist Show"
(Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, FI.)
1979 *RetrospectiveExhibiti<m: "Moe Mitchell in Retrospect" Paintings from 1958-1979
(Melvin Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FI.)
1977 Invitational Group Show "All State Touring Show" (Foster Harmon Gallery, Ft. Myers, FL.-Group Exhibition)
1977 Invitational Group Show: "Myers Gallery" ( Washington, D.C)
1977 Invitational Group Show:" New Talent U.S.A. Show" (Alan Stone Gallery New York, N.Y.)
1977 Invitational Group Show: "Florida Artist Group Annual Exhibition" (Miami Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miami, PI.)
Winner of the Jordon Marsh Award.
1973 Invitational Group Show "First Annual Exhibition of Faculty Artists"
(Division of Cultural Affairs, State Capitol, Tallahassee)
1972-77 Festival of States "Juried Show"
(St. Petersburg, Fl.)
1962-67 Juried Group Show: " Dixie Annual Drawing Exhibition" (Montgomery, AI.)
1962 Invitational Group Show: "Twenty Florida Painters" (National Tour) |
Selected Shows and Awards
2007 Outstanding Service Award
(to the Ringling College of Art & Deign art community at large) 2001 Mixed Media Show
(Lakeland Center of the Arts)
1988 Best of Show: Park Chase Award, Florida Artist Group (Sarasota Visual Arts Center, Sarasota, FI.)
1986 Reddi Arts Award, Florida Artist Group Exhibition (Tampa, FI.)
1984 Reddi Arts Award, Florida Artist Group Exhibition (Winter Haven, FL)
1983 Third Prize, Glen .Gallery Statewide Open Show (Sarasota,FI.)
1982 Reddi Arts Award: Florida Artisf Group Exhibition (Center for the Arts, Boca Raton, FL.
1977 Best of Show, Florida Artist Group
(Miami Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miami, FI.) |
2006 "New Morning for Mitchell Morning for Mitchell" (Chattanooga Magazine, Deborah Petticord)
2006 Article: Morris Mitchell at the Red Bank Gallery
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) .
2005 Article: Sarasota, Magazine, May 2005
2001 " History of Visual Art In Sarasota"
(Pat Ringling Buck, Marcia Corbino, Kevin Dean)
2000 Article: "Morris Mitchell: Old Art Teachers Don't Retire, They Just Paint Away
(Planet Weekly, Sarasota, F1.)
1999 Article:" The Art of Morris Mitchell" (Sarasota Arts Review)
1998 "A Tour of The Newfoundland Artist Colony" (Bell Island Newfoundland-Canadian Broadcast)
1998 Listing: Who's Who in the Best of American Teachers
1995 Article: "Visual Artists- Sarasota's Most Wanted (Sarasota Arts Review)
1993 Article: Moe Mitchell: "The Hammer" (Sarasota Arts Review)
1992 Book: "A Collection of Poems Based on the Paintings of Morris Mitchell" By Susan Landgraf (unpublished) Ragdale Foundation-Lake Forrest, IL.
1990 Book: "Adventures in Art"
By Lois Bartlett Tracy (Book)
1987 Article: "Faculty for Art"
(Sarasota Magazine, Nov. Kay Kipling)
1987 Listing: "Who's Who in the South and Southwest (Regional Publication)
1987 Catalog: "Morris Mitchell"
(Lee Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL.)
1987 Listing: "Twentieth Edition"
(Art Papers Vol. 11 # 3 - Atlanta, GA.)
1977 "Listening To Moe Mitchell"
(By Tim Kantor - Town and Country Magazine-July/AugustIssue)
1977 " From a Farmer to an Artist" (By·W.E. Richards - Ringling Magazine) |
2003 Residency: The Hambidge Center-Rabun Gap, Georgia 1999 Newfoundland Artist Colony.- Bell Island Newfoundland 1998 Newfoundland Artist Colony - Bell Island Newfoundland 1997 Newfoundland Artist Colony - Bell Island Newfoundland 1992 Ragdale Fellowship, Lake Forest, IL.
1990 Ragdale Fellowship, Lake Forest, IL.
1989 Faculty Grant: Ringling School of Art and Design-Sarasota,
(For travel to Symposium: Contemporary Issues in Painting, ALA, N.Y., NY.
1989 Fellowship: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Brier, VA
1989 Faculty Grant: Ringling School of Art and Design - Sarasota, FL
(For Travel to England and Italy)
1986 Faculty Grant: Ringling School of Art and Design- Sarasota, Fl.
1986 Fellowship: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts- Sweet Brier,Va.
1985 Faculty Grant: Ringling School of Art and Design- Sarasota, FL
(Comparative Study of Documentary Baroque Art and Contemporary Baroque Art
Washington, D.C.
1974 Assistantship: University of Tulsa, -Tulsa, Ok. (Taught Class) |
Gallery Affiliations
2006 The Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2005 Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2004 Gallery Krause, Atlanta, GA
1999-2001 Evolution Gallery, Orlando, Fl
1999-2001 James Hoyle Gallery, Kauai, Hawaii
1999-2000 David Steiner Fine Art Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
1998-1999 Fulton-Burt Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
1994-1999 Meza Fine Art Gallery, Coral Gables, FI
1994-1996 Donn Roll Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
1991-1992 Art Publicity, Sarasota, Fl
1990 Gallery Des Artiste, West Palm Beach, FI
1990 The New Center for the Creative Arts, Sarasota, FI
1990 International Fine Art Brokerage, LTD, Sarasota, Fl
1990 AndersonMarshGalleries, Inc. St. Petersburg, FI
1962-1990 Richard Chillcott Gallery, Sarasota, Fl Galleries St. Onge, Atlanta, Ga
Ruth Sherman Galleries, New York, NY Burta Gladstone Gallery, Woodstock, NY Center Gallery, Sarasota, Fl
Up Here Gallery, Sarasota, FI
St. Armands Gallery, Sarasota, Fl Joan Hodgell Gallery, SarasotaFl Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY Rauchbach Galleries.Miami, Fl |
Professional Experience as Critic, Lecturer, and Juror
2007 Juror: Maitland Arts Festival
(Maitland ,FL)
Juror: Winter Park Arts Fair (Winter Park, Fl)
Juror: 6th Annual Celebration Spring Art Festival (Celebration, Orlando, Fl)
Lecturer and Juror: Various Civic And Arts Groups (Chattanooga, TN)
Curator: National Invitational Photography Show
(The Art League of Manatee)
Curator: National Invitational Drawing Exhibition
"Artistic Strokes" Art League of Manatee County, Bradenton, Fl.
2002 -04 Selection Committee: of the " Art in Public Places Committee" - Sarasota, Fl
2002 Curator: " Multiples Vision III, The History of Art Making in Sarasota"
Selby Gallery, The Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Fl.
Curator: " Two Printmakers " Patrick Lindhardt and Johntimothy Pizzuto (Art League of Manatee County, Bradenton, Fl)
Curator: " Different Strokes Exhibition"
(Art League of Manatee County, Bradenton, Fl) 1996-99 Screening Committee: The Florida Artist Group
1995 Participant: " Art on the Eve of the Millennium" International Symposium
(Art Miami Exposition, Miami, Fl)
Artist in Residence: University of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK)
Research Sabbatical: Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota,Fl) Video: "The Art of Morris Mitchell II"
(Produced by Business Arts Productions) President: Contemporary Society for the Arts (Sarasota, Fl)
Juror: Port Charlotte Art Guild, Juried Exhibition (Port Charlotte, Fl.)
Video: " The Art of Morris Mitchell" (Produced by Business Arts Production)
Juror: Longboat Key Art Center, Juried Exhibition (Longboat Key,Fl)
Curator: The New Centerfor Creative Awareness (Sarasota, Fl.)
Consultant: Florida Artist Group
Lecturer: Sarasota Art Association Lecture Series (Sarasota, Fl.)
Juror: " Six State Regional Show"
(Overland Parks Commission, Kansas City, KS.)
ThinkTank& Creative Exchange Participant: Consortium of Art Schools (Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Fl.)
Artist in Residence: University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS.) |
Lecturer: Slide Lecture Program (School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.)
LecturerlWorkshop Instructor: Wild Acres Summer Art Program (Ringling School of Art & Design, North Carolina Campus)
Visiting Lecturer: Lakeland Art Association (Lakeland, F1) Lecturer/Critic: Parsons school of Design (New York, NY)
Lecturer/Critic: " Embarking on a New Interpretation" Statewide Traveling Slide Lecture Program
(Sponsored by the Art League of Manatee County, Bradenton, and Fl.) |
Works in Private Collections |
- Mr. And Mrs. Sam Aubrey -Tulsa, OK
- Ms. Sara Jane Bush - Sarasota, FL.
- Mr. And Mrs. Armand Castiliani, Sarasota, FL.- N.Y. NY.
Major Collector and Contributor to the Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, N.Y.*
- Mr. Richard Chillcott - Sarasota, FL.
Furniture Designer
- Mr. Carl Coker - Tulsa, OK.
- Eckard College- St. Petersburg, FL. Permanent Collection
- Ms. Jessie Eldridge- Sarasota, FL.
- Mr. and Mrs. Holly Graham- Sarasota,
FL. and NY. - Entertainer-Vocalist
- Mr. and Mrs. Larry Harris- Tampa, FL.
- Mr. Thomas Harrison - Roanoke, V A.
- Mr. And Mrs. George Heiland Sarasota, FL.
- Dr. James Justice - Tulsa, OK.
- Mr. And Mrs. Donald King - Palm Beach,FL.- Gallery Pealer
- Mr. William Korp -Venice, FL.
- Dr. Kenneth Krischer M.D., P.H.D. Ft. Lauderdale, FL. - Collector and Physician, Consult to the Pope on the health of children throughout the world.
- Mr. And Mrs. Bruce Marks Bethlehem, P A.
- Ms. Grace McCoy- Tulsa, OK.
- Mr. And Mrs. Ron McGee - Sarasota, Fl.
- Dr. Livingston Otis - Sarasota, Fl.
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- Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Peduto New York, N.Y. - Graphic Designer
Dr. Bradley Place - University of Tulsa, OK.- Chairman of the Art Department of Tulsa University, Tulsa, OK.
- Ragdale Foundation - Lake Forest, IL. - Permanent Collection *
- Mr. Allen Green - Music Promoter, Orlando, FL.
- Mr. Jeff Cameron, Producer of the rock Group "Creed", Orlando, FL.
- Mr. Burt Reynolds - Jupiter, FL. Hollywood, CA., Actor, Producer Owns the painting" After The Storm", depicting the survival after a struggle as ina tornado. Dean Thomas Stanley - University of Tulsa, OK. - The foremost James Joyce Scholar in the U.S.A.
- Mr. and Mrs. Alan Shulte -- Sarasota, FL.
- Mr. Walter J. Schacklett - Sarasota, Fl.
- Mr. Stephen Sumner - Director of the School of Art University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK.
- University of Tulsa - Tulsa, OK permanent collection *
- Mr. Paul Van Helden - Sarasota, Fl.
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Sweet Brier, V A. *
- Mr. Vernon Voelz, Tallahassee, FL.
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Teaching Experience
1959-1999 Instructor (Chairman of Fine Arts Department 1974-1984) Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL.
Courses have included; Advanced Painting, Figure, Portrait, Landscape Painting, Color and Design, Graphics Lab, Senior Seminar in Aesthetics, Watercolor Workshop. Introduced Experimental Multi- Media Course Entitled." Incredible Phenomena". Collage Assemblage, Intermediate Drawing, and Conceptual Drawing.
Responsibilities Have included: Design of Curricula, selection and supervision of eight instructors, and the supervision of approximately one hundred Fine Arts Majors (Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking), Instituted visiting artist programs, including such national figures as James Rosenquist, Duane Hansen, Jimmy Ernst plus many others. Conducted extensive gallery and museum tours in New York City. Also private instruction and other community teaching experiences. Instructor of Saturday Children Art Classes in the 60's -John and Mable Ringling Museum. Director of the Hilton Leach School of Art in the 60"s |
Education 1974 1955-59 1954 |
The Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN - Education Department |
University of Tulsa, Ok, M.A.
Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. |
Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, England, France, Germany, Holland, Newfoundland, Scotland, Spain, U.S.A. |