Samantha Mitchell (she/her/hers) is an artist, writer, and arts educator based in Philadelphia. She was born in New York City, earned a BA from Oberlin College in 2008, and an MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2012.
Mitchell is cofounder and director of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, a publishing and curatorial project that foregrounds work by neurodivergent artists. She was the Exhibitions Manager at the Center for Creative Works, a studio for adults with developmental disabilities, where she worked for fourteen years. She worked as a managing editor for Title Magazine, a publication devoted to writing on the arts in Philadelphia, for five years, and contributes writing to Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Sculpture Magazine, and Brut Force. Mitchell is the co-editor of Making Space: Progressive Art Studios in Action, the first full-length publication on progressive art studios (Temple University Press, forthcoming 2027). She has taught studio art classes at Saint Joseph’s University and Delaware County Community College, and has been a visiting lecturer at New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Skidmore College, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Rowan University, and Moore College of Art and Design.
Mitchell’s artwork has been exhibited at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Arcadia University, Gross McCleaff Gallery, Snyderman-Works, Avery Gallery, AUTOMAT, Grizzly Grizzly, Schau Fenster (Berlin) and the International Print Center (NYC), and is part of the permanent collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Woodmere Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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