DEBORAH MITCHELL
VISUAL ARTIST // CURATOR // EVERGLADES CONSULTANT
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
Florida Master Naturalist Program, University of Florida, 2020-2022
Artists Liaison, Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE), Everglades National Park, 2020
Creative Director, AIRIE, Everglades National Park, 2019
Executive Director, AIRIE, Everglades National Park, FL, 2013 - 2018
Board Member, AIRIE, 2012
SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2010-2023
The SuperNatural, Group Exhibition, 21c Museum Hotel, Oklahoma City, 2022-2023
Ping Pong Miami, Alfred I Dupont Building, 2022, 2023
Ping Pong Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2023
Interwoven, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Miami, 2022
The Blueprnt Show, Bridge Red Studios, Miami, Florida 2022-2023
Pa hay okee: the land of ‘grassy water’, ArtServe, Ft. Lauderdale, 2022
Wild Observations in Everglades National Park, 2021-2022
Wild Observations: New Work, The Studios, Key West, FL
Wild Observations in American Flyways, Mia Galleries, Miami International Airport, FL, 2021
Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA - All Florida, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Backcountry, Big Cypress National Preserve, Ochopee, FL
The Elliot Museum’s 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, Stuart, FL
Witness To Creativity II, Florida Museum for Women Artists, DeLand, FL
Summer Installations, Women’s Park, Miami, FL
Coastal Forests, The Young At Art Children’s Museum, Davie, FL
Documenting Our Contemporary Wetlands, Museum of the Everglades City, FL, and The Montauk Library, Montauk, NY
The Wetlands Project, Project Room, BAC, Miami, FL
In Deep, The Deering Estate, Miami, FL
Coastal Forests, Biscayne Nature Center, Miami, FL
Sculpture: an Invitational, Alliance for the Arts, Ft Myers, FL
THE PRESERVE, Big Cypress Welcome Center, Swenson Gallery, FL
Wilderness and the Unconscious, the Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL
The Florida Landscape, Swenson Gallery, Miami, FL
CURATORIAL PRACTICE 2014-2020
Four Moments of the Sun, Jeanine Michna-Bales, The Airie Nest, Everglades National Park
Where Earth Meets Sky, National Water Dance Projects, The Airie Nest, Everglades National Park
Fragile, Group Exhibition, The Airie Nest, Everglades National Park
SEREPENS: Serenoa repens, Robert Chambers, The AIRIE Nest, Everglades National Park
The Unavoidable Twilight, Christina Pettersson, The AIRIE Nest, Everglades National Park
Escaped Exotics, Rachel Johnson, The AIRIE Nest, Everglades National Park
About Florida Bay, The AIRIE Nest, Everglades National Park
Blooming World, Elisabeth Condon, The AIRIE Nest, Everglades National Park
Flight, Group Exhibition, ArtCenter South Florida, Museum of Florida Arts and Culture, Avon Park, MDC Homestead, FL
AnthropoScene, Group Exhibition, CAS Gallery, University of Miami, FL
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS 2007-2021
Commission, Live Wildly for Florida State Parks, Tallahassee, FL 2024
Miami Individual Artists Award Grant Program, Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs, 2023
Artists Access Grant, Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs, FL, 2019, 2021, 2023
AS IF Art Science in the Field Residency, NC
Ucross Foundation Artists Residency, WY
Artist in Residence Grant, Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation, Miami, FL
New York Foundation for the Arts fiscal sponsorship for Documenting our Contemporary Wetlands
Big Cypress National Preserve Artist in Residence, FL
SELECT PANELS, LECTURES, ETC 2016-2024
The Power of Art and Science in a Changing World, Gulf of Mexico Conference, Tampa, FL
Art & Science Far and Wide, Archbold Biological Station 7th Annual Symposium, FL
Conservation Through Art and Science, Virtual Lecture, Organization of Biological Field Stations, Sonoma State University, CA
Wild Observations, A Virtual Exhibition, Archbold Biological Station, Venus, FL
Everglades Coalition Conference, Captiva, FL
AIRIE Think Tank, Big Cypress, FL
AIRIE X PAMM: Art + Environment at Perez Art Museum Miami, FL
Grant panelist, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, FL
University of Hartford MFA program students, The AIRIE Nest, Everglades
AIRIE Think Tank, Big Cypress, FL
The Miami International Book Fair, Miami, FL
Love the Everglades Movement Symposium, Everglades, FL
Youth Community Outreach Presentation, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
School of Social Work, FIU, the Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
Over 6 years of experience developing educational outreach for artists and cultural presenters
Funded proposal highlights: National Endowment for the Arts: SEREPENS exhibit; Knight Foundation: Wild Billboard Project and AIRIE Nest; Florida Department of Cultural Affairs: Sundays in the Park; Miami-Dade County: Sundays in the Park; TAUK Ritzau innovative Philanthropy: AIRIE Nest and Flight; Florida Humanities Council: Getting the Water Right; Tourism Development Council: AIRIE programming; Miami Arts Salon Group : AIRIE programming
Over 4 years of teaching the intersection of art and science to k-6th grade students
SELECT PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS, FILM 1998-2021
Keys Weekly, Key West, FL
Miami Art Zine, Miami, FL
SEREPENS Catalogue, Essay, -Science Insider, Everglades Foundation
Everglades Field Guide, From Reality to Memory, Deborah Mitchell! -Indulge Magazine, Queen of the Glades
Newsleader, Homestead, FL
SWAMPLIFE (select photographs), Laura Ogden, Minnesota Press
The Public Storyteller, WLRN
Michael Stock’s Folk and Acoustic Show, WLRN Radio! - ArtLoft, WPBT
Biscayne Times, Miami, FL
New Times, Miami FL
Ocean Drive Magazine, Miami Beach, FL
Hamptons Magazine, East Hampton, NY
Studio 10 TV interview, Tampa Bay, FL - Miami Herald, Miami, FL
Curdled, Miramax Films, Miami, FL