“Your teaching is incisive, sensitive, and inspiring. As someone who began taking your classes without an art background, I am amazed at how much I have learned about how I make, look at, and understand my own work. You have an astounding capacity to intuit, clarify, and articulate what is going on artistically with students.”

– Jody Cohen, Education Professor, Bryn Mawr College

“Marianne is able to get me to verbalize what I need in a painting – then her guidance is extraordinarily effective and offers great empowerment.”

– Anne Galbally, Art Teacher

“Marianne’s talent, intelligence, artistic understanding, and honed intuition in combination with her supportive and encouraging manner make her an exceptional artist and phenomenal teacher.”

–Jamie Jessar, Psychologist

“I truly enjoyed meeting you and of course benefiting from your expertise, fabulous technique, and wonderful paintings. You are an enrichment to the humankind, words I use sparingly, and not many I know of. I am sincere about this!”

– Connie Reschke, Private Art Student from Germany

“Having Marianne Mitchell as my art teacher has given me one of the best educational experiences of my life...(it) has been a source of amazing growth and change in my painting and has led me to a much deeper confidence in and satisfaction with my art. I have also seen Marianne provide inspiration and education to others in the courses I have been in and she is able to meet each student where he or she is – combining a finely tuned sensitivity to the spiritual and aesthetics of the work being done with really accessible teaching of the technical skills that the person needs to make progress toward her or his goals. She creates a warm, lively, intelligent and productive environment for artistic learning and development.”

– Harris W. Stern, Psychologist