Samantha Mitchell

Samantha Mitchell is an artist, writer, and arts educator based in Philadelphia. She was born in New York City and graduated from Oberlin College in 2008. She lived and worked in Illinois, Utah, California, and Oregon before enrolling in the MFA program of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, graduating in 2012.

Mitchell's work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, AUTOMAT, The University of Pennsylvania, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Gross McCleaf Gallery, and the International Print Center of New York, and is part of the permanent collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Woodmere Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Aside from her work in the studio, Mitchell is the Head Curator and Production Manager at the Center for Creative Works, a studio for adults with developmental disabilities. She has worked as an adjunct professor at Saint Joseph's University and Delaware County Community College and a writing tutor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She contributes writing to Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail and Brut Force.