John Blair Mitchell, Professor Emeritus of Towson University, painter, printmaker, photographer, art community activist, is featured here in a major retrospective of his art. A teacher for more than fifty years and an artist for even longer, Dr. Mitchell's lifetime work is surveyed in a tribute to his many years at Towson University in Baltimore. This exhibit presents his paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, ceramics and sculpture, spotlighting some never-before-shown paintings completed in 1999 just before his death at the age of 78.	"(I am) . . an author of pictures, a draughtsman of words" -- e.e. cummings "Simonides call paintings silent poetry, and poetry, speaking paintings." -- Plutarch