Frank Mitchell

Curator at Large | The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Curatorial Adviser | Toni N. & Wendell C. Harp Historical Museum
Panelist |Reimagining Museums 

Frank Mitchell is a cultural organizer in visual arts and public humanities committed to following the histories often ignored by our monuments, civic spaces, and cultural institutions. He is The Amistad Center for Art & Culture’s curator at large and curatorial adviser for the Toni N. and Wendell C. Harp Historical Museum at New Haven’s Dixwell Q House. Mitchell was consultant to SmokeSygnals, the Indigenous-led exhibition design firm, on the Mystic Seaport exhibition Entwined: Freedom, Sovereignty, and the Sea; for Connecticut Public Radio’s radio podcast Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery, he was editorial consultant. His curatorial projects include the exhibitions Love Overflowing: HOME and the Décor of Freedom, Timeless: Telling Our Neighborhood Stories—Chapter 1: Constance Baker Motley, The Nutmeg Pulpit: Hartford’s Talcott Street Church & Black Community Formation, and Afrocosmologies: American Reflections; publications include the anthology African American Connecticut Explored. Mitchell began work in museums as a programmer for The Anacostia Museum and The Studio Museum in Harlem. He serves as chair of the CTHumanities board and treasurer of the New England Foundation for the Arts board.