Doug Mitchell

Doug Mitchell is a London, Ontario-based multimedia artist who works with many different mediums such as: painting, sculpture, sound, photography and illustrations amongst others. In the past he worked as the stop-motion animation instructor for a program through the Gallery of Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, and has recently retired from his position at Western University as the Sculpture Studio instructor.

Currently, he is working full time as an artist. Doug is a graduate from the Ontario College of Art with a degree with a four year A.O.C.A. His contributions towards the Embassy Cultural House include curating Tom Benner’s exhibit : ‘The Coves’, and poet Christopher Dewdney’s: 'Landscape Reading' which both took place April, 1990.

Doug has also participated in shows at the Embassy Cultural House such as Silent Auction: his Recent Works show in 1984, A Benefit Exhibition 1989. Doug produced an installation for 'You Are Here #1Dundas Street' in 2005. Some of the work he has produced during his time at the ECH include: Electron Gun, The Deluge; Acteon; and The Cutter which were also installed at College Park and his rhythm paintings which were displayed at the ECH.

Work by Doug Mitchell

Glass calendar 17' x 4' x 12" stainless steel , Dalle de Verre slab glass, 2005

Forest rhythm, 95b 30" x 6.5", water colour on paper, 1990

Observatory 24' x 24' x 12 ' Corten steel, concrete, copper, stainless steel, limestone, 2001

#1 Dundas St. Forks of the Thames. 52" x 52" . mixed media on translucent paper, plexiglass and hardware 2005.

EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi, JoAnna Weil

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson.

OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

Thank you to our partners

E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.