Several Best of Show awards have come to Mitchell, from the International Portrait Seminar where she took Grand Prize from among 4000 entrants, to the American Society of Portrait Artists "Portraits Only" International Competition and the Washington Society of Portrait Artists, taking Best of Show in both, as well as People's Choice for her portraits.

From 2003 to the present she has been primarily working with commissioned portraiture which hang in many private homes throughout the United States and continues to travel upon request.  She resides in the mountains of NC with her family continuing to paint in her studio ~ still lifes, figurative and landscape paintings both from her personal inspiration as well as responding to requests for commissioned works of art. They presently are being displayed in venues including The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Grand Central Gallery in New York, Palette and Chisel of Fine Arts in Chicago, The Foundation for the Carolinas Museum, Duke Mansion, Duke University, Queens College, the U.S. Capitol in D.C. and the Portrait Society of Illustrators in NY.  

2000 to the present

Commissioned works specializing in portraiture but also including landscape and still life works~ Continuing to pursue personal pieces which include studio figurative with still life and landscape in Marshall studio, NC 

2003
"Lord of the Rings" drawings commissioned by Universal Studios - Los Angeles, CA

2001-2002
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - American Society of Portrait Artists Annual Seminar - participated as lecturer and demonstrator

1999
Juried Exhibition - Belloc-Lowndes Gallery - Chicago, IL
Published in "Chicago Art Scene" - juried selection
2nd Place - Portrait Brokers of America International Competition

1998
Best of Show, Washington Society of Portrait Artists, International Competition

1997
Best of Show, American Society of Portrait Artists International Annual Competition
People's Choice Award - American Society of Portrait Artists International Competition

1995
Private exhibit of the artist - Florence, Italy

1994
Stacey Foundation Award

1993
Hollis Taggart Gallery Exhibit "Emerging Artists" - Washington, D.C.

1992
Akron Society of Artists Juried Show - Akron, OH

1991
W.A.R.M.'s 12th Annual Juried Exhibition for Women Artists, Nash Gallery - Minneapolis, MN

1987
One Person Show, Palette and Chisel Gallery of Fine Art - Chicago, IL
Talisman Gallery, OK - Group Exhibit
Harriet Bitterly Show, Palette and Chisel Gallery of Fine Art - Chicago, IL
Arlington Racetrack Group Exhibit, Arlington, IL
Silver Medal Show, Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art - Chicago, IL

1986
Arta, Greece - Group Exhibit
Best of Show, National Portrait Seminar International Competition
Grand Central Gallery Exhibition - New York, NY

1984
Society of Illustrators Exhibition Award - New York, NY

1983
Society of Illustrators Exhibition Award - New York, NY
American Academy of Art Scholarship - Chicago, IL
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Scholarship - Chicago, IL

1982
Society of Illustrators Exhibition Award - New York, NY
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Scholarship - Chicago, IL
American Academy of Art Scholarship - Chicago, IL

1977
Arthur Pelz Award - Chicago, Il
University of Illinois Full Scholarship - Champaign, IL
Art Institute of Chicago Scholarship - Chicago, IL