2144 McDaniel
Evanston, IL 60201, U.S.A.

Phone: 847-869-2676
Email: d-mitchell2@neiu.edu
URL: http://www.dennisleemitchell.com

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Education

• 1971 Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
• 1969 Master of Arts in Ceramics, Fort Hays Kansas State University, Hays, Kansas
• 1968  Bachelor of Arts, Fort Hays Kansas State University, Hays, Kansas

Current Position

•    Professor of Art, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois

Recent Exhibitions

 

Grants and Award

• 2004 Illinois Arts Council, Special Assistance Grant
• 1977 National Endowment for the Arts, Crafts Critic Fellowship Grant
• 1975-6 National Endowment for the Arts, Craftsmen’s Fellowship Grant

Anthologies

• 2006 John Natsoulas, “30 Ceramic Sculptors 2006”, John Natsoulas Press
• 2005 Bridgette R. McCullough, Review of Dennis Lee Mitchell’s Solo Exhibition, Dubhe Carreno Gallery, TimeOut Chicago, June
• 2005 Elaine Levin, “I Have Always been Driven with Desire for the Straightforward Truth of     
  the Natural World”, Ceramic Art and Perception, September
• 2005 Glenn Brown, Review of Solo Exhibition at Dubuque Museum of Art, American Ceramics,14/4
• 2004 “Dennis Lee Mitchell’s Microcosm of Transformation”, Solo Exhibition, Essay by
  Glenn R. Brown, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa
• 2004 Tarkassis, Kostas, “Dennis Lee Mitchell” Kerameiki Techni, May

Public Collections

• Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri
• Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona
• Deloitte & Touche Collection, Chicago, Illinois
• Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana
• Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois
• Illinois Collection for the State of Illinois Center, Chicago, Illinois

Private Collections

 

 

 

• William Lieberman, Chicago
• Tarkassis Collection, Greece
• Mavridis Collection, Greece

• 2006 Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, Illinois, May 19-July 23
• 2006 “Sense of Origin”, Solo Exhibition, Clarke House Museum, Chicago, Illinois, April 21-June 30
• 2006 “30 Ceramic Sculptors”, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, April 28-May 27\
• 2006 “Sense of Origin”, Solo Exhibition, Clarke House Museum, Chicago, Illinois, April 21-June 30
• 2006 “Nature/Culture”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 21-May 20
• 2006 Chicago Sculptors Biennale, Flatfile Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, May 5-June 7
• 2006 2006 Biennale, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, June 10-August 20
• 2006 “Source”, Solo Exhibition, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, March 10-May 5
• 2006 “People of the Mud”, A Look at Chicago Ceramics, Chicago Tourism Center, Chicago Illinois, November 18-January 29
• 2005 SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, November 10-12
• 2005 “Magnificent Extravagance”,  Artists and Opulence, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin, June 14-November 26
• 2005 “Manifest”, Solo Exhibition, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, March 11-May 10
• 2004 “Earth”, Flatfile Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, December 3-30
• 2004 “Global All Media International”, Gallery International, Baltimore, Maryland, November 9-December 3
• 2004 SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, November 5-7
• 2004 “Sculptures”, Solo Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa, May 29-Aug. 8
• 2004 “Drawing to Sculpture”, Drawing/Sculpture Exhibition, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Fredrick, Maryland, April 3-25
• 2004 “A Sense of Identity”, Contemporary Ceramic Art, University of Indianapolis & NCECA 38th Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 6-April 16
• 2004 “A Sense of Identity”, Contemporary Ceramic Art, Indiana University- Purdue University, Visual Arts Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana, January 12-February 27
• 2004 “New Works”, Solo Exhibition, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, April 9-May 8
• 2004 “That 70’s Show”, The Age of Pluralism in Chicago, June 7-July 9, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, Indiana
• 2003 “State of Clay”, Regional Survey of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois, September 21-November 16
• 2002 “Artists Educators”, The Work of 12 Illinois Professors, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, January 12-February 24
• 2001 “Sculptures”, Solo Exhibition, Amalgama Gellery, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2-28