About Annette Mitchell

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Annette Mitchell is Professor Emerita of Art at Plymouth State University and the inventor and principal teacher of the foam plate printing technique. She continues to teach in PSU's College of Graduate Studies, having served as Coordinator of Drawing since 1981. She received the New Hampshire Art Educator of the Year Award in 1990.

Mitchell's sumi ink and print work was featured in an article in the March/April 2013 issue of Artscope Magazine. An excerpt from her book Foam Is Where the Art Is: New Ways to Print was included in Discovering Drawing by Ted Rose and Sallye Mahan-Cox (Davis Publications). American Artist Magazine featured a six-page article "Elegant Prints from a Foam Plate," about her flower prints in their July 2004 issue. Mitchell's article "Printmaking for All Ages" was published in SchoolArts Magazine.

Her work is in numerous public and private collections.

I think the secret to a true artist's life is staying mentally in the studio all the time."