Tyrone Mitchell - July 2022

Ways of Grain by Tyrone Mitchell

I was born in 1944 in Savannah, Ga. Family moved to Atlantic City, NJ in the early 1950’s. I attended High School there. My interest in Art seems to be connected to an Artist/ Barber in Savannah, Ulysses Davis who made wooden pieces of both timely events as well as demons which he called his creations. That interest resurfaced during later High School. Upon graduating I came to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League and later in the New York Studio School. I have maintained a studio in NY since 1965. In 1969 I traveled in West Africa with a keen desire to witness first hand the culture and its creators. I am a Mcdowell Colony Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow A recipient of a Readers Digest Fellowship held at The Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France. I am also a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. I am a Professor of Art at Queens College. I currently live and work in Ancram NY.