Lori Mitchell

Teaches at Art on 30th

Lori Mitchell graduated with honors from the internationally renowned Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California with her BFA. Lori Mitchell wrote and illustrated the award-winning children’s book, Different Just Like Me, for which she appeared on Oprah and the Today show. She has illustrated 9 more books since, including Holly Bloom’s Garden and her latest, Bal Yoga for Kids, which won the San Diego Book award. 

She also does advertising and editorial illustrations. She teaches Pen and Ink and watercolor at the Athenaeum and Animal illustration and Pen & Ink at UCSD Extension for the Children's Book illustration certificate. Taught Drawing and Composition at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA for 14 years.