Mitzi Shewmake

Mitzi Shewmake was born in New York City and grew up in Woodstock, New York, and Tucson, Arizona. She received her B.A. at George Washington University in DC, and her M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She studied at the Corcoran School of Art in DC, the Cleveland Art Institute in Ohio, the Art Students League summer School at Woodstock, NY, and at Arrowmont School of Crafts and Penland School of Crafts.

Mitzi is Emerita Professor of Art at Winston-Salem State Univ. She was the Co-founder and first director of Diggs Gallery, WSSU, and one of the founding members of Artworks Gallery. She has had two commissions of sculpture, one at Wake Forest Univ. and one at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Ms. Shewmake was the Winston-Salem Artist of the Year with Ed Shewmake.

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Artworks Exhibits: September 2016, June 2014, May 2012, July 2011, June 2010, June 2009, May 2008

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