Originally from Birmingham, AL, Erin Mitchell is a practicing artist and muralist whose work has been featured in print and television and is in the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Mitchell moved to Chicago in 2007 to pursue her passion for art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011. Her interest in teaching led Mitchell to Columbia College Chicago, where she graduated with her Master of Arts in Art Education in 2016. Mitchell continues to expand her work, teaching and making art depicting the black experience.