Deborah Mitchell’s firebird is framed by the charred remains of a cabinet that burned when her studio was destroyed by an arsonist in 2020.
An exhibition at Augustana University’s Eide/Dalrymple Gallery features work that has risen from the ashes of one artist’s longest night.
Deborah Mitchell’s small studio in the Black Hills was set ablaze by an arsonist in December, 2020. Decades of her creative work burned, melted, or collapsed. Her print-making press was destroyed…