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Updated 5/3/2025

Christine Mix

  • Vermont

    VT

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Christine Mix is a published children’s illustrator / author and teaching artist, living in Vermont.  She is a PAL member of SCBWI, CBIG-NYC, and listed on the New England Foundation’s Creative Ground, the Vermont Arts Council Teaching Artist Roster  and the Creative Aging Teaching Artist Roster.

Christine's illustrations have been published in, Write Out of the Oven!  For grades 5 - 8, written by Josephine M. Waltz, published by Teacher Ideas Press / Greenwood Publishing, 2005.  Her work was published in Stories for Children Magazine, Back- to- School- Issue, 2012.  Her short story Standing Up, was published, in Chicken Soup for the Child’s Soul Character-Building Stories to Read with Kids Ages 5-8, May 2007.  Chris currently has a few children's picture books, and  illustrated chapter books in progress.

Her work has been exhibited at the Chaffee Art Center’s, When the Wind Bears Go Dancing, an Exhibit of Children’s Book Illustrations, Rutland, Vt., Tilbury House Publisher’s One of Us / Powered by Girl Exhibit, at the Book Culture, NYC, for the Book Expo America, the Southern Vermont Arts Center, The Master Story Teller’s Exhibit, (CBIG), Poe Park Museum, in Poe Park, Bronx, NY.,  the Fairytales Exhibit (CBIG) at the Brooklyn Library, Brooklyn, N.Y., the Fur & Feather Exhibit at the Great Hall, in Springfield, Vt., and the Londonderry Arts & Historical Society, in Londonderry, Vt., South Londonderry Library, Martha Canfield Library, Arlington, Vt and Dorset Library, Dorset, Vt.

Christine has taught cartoon / illustration residencies at the Windham Elementary School, in Windham, Vt., 2016, Ferrisburgh Central School and The Bridge School, in Middlebury, Vt., 2018.  She presented a school visit as part of the Mt. Abraham Fine Arts Festival at the Mt. Abraham Union High School in Bristol Vt in 2023.

In Winter 2021 -2022, she designed an illustration Creative Aging Care Kit Program via the Central Vermont Council on Aging, made possible through Lifetime Arts, in partnership with the Vermont Arts Council, to design and deliver creative aging programs that support older adult participants in connecting meaningfully and building relationships.  In Spring 2024, she designed a booklet of Creative Activities for People with Mild to Moderate Memory Loss for the CVCOA.

 For more information, a full bio, portfolio & art educational programs visit  www.christinemixart.com 

 Contact Christine at cmixart2@gmail.com for commissions, pricing, resume and references.

 

Find Me

Christine Mix (She / Her)
Job Title: Children's Illustrator/Author, Teaching Artist for Illustration / Cartooning / Drawing / Watercolor
Phone: 802-856-7494
Fax: 802-856-7494
Address:
Weston, VT 05161

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

1992

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

1992

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Visual/Crafts - Illustration / Drawing

Additional Disciplines:

  • Visual/Crafts - Painting

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Virtual Events
  • Exhibitions
  • Community Arts
  • Professional Network Gatherings / Events
  • Residency - Community
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Design Services

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Artists
  • Rural Populations
  • Nonprofits

Languages Available:

  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Media Gallery

The Fiddle Fairy and the Sunflower
Champ and the Mermaid
Ghosty Eve
Seeking Peace and Shelter
Hope
Forest Wonder
Finding the Magic
Fox Games
Spike and Ripley, Tower of Dragons

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators - PAL Member
  • Children's Book Illustrator Group - (CBIG), NYC
  • Vermont Arts Council
  • Gallery at the Vault, Springfield, Vt.
  • Kids Comics Unite, NYC, NY
  • Society of Visual Storytellers, National

Professional Associations

Professional Associations:

  • Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators - PAL Member
  • Children's Book Illustrator Group - (CBIG), NYC
  • Vermont Arts Council
  • Gallery at the Vault, Springfield, Vt.
  • Kids Comics Unite, NYC, NY
  • Society of Visual Storytellers, National

Awards

Awards:

  • Scholarship for painting, 1983, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa., Fl.

Education

Education:

  • B.A. in Fine Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl., 1988
  • B.A. in Mass Communications, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl., 1988

Special Designations

Designated Arts Community:

  • Vermont Creative Region Member - Southern Vermont Creative Region

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • School / University
  • Virtual / Remote
  • Healthcare Facility

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors
  • College-age
  • Pre-Kindergarten-age

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Design
  • Visual/Crafts

Certifications and Training:

  • Juried Teaching Artist with the Vermont Arts Council 2011 - Present
  • Participated in the Arts Connect development program for integrated arts, offered through the Integrated Arts Academy, in partnership with VSA Vermont, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington City Arts, and the Vermont Arts Council, 2016
  • Designed a Storytelling with Illustrations, Creative Aging Care Kit Program via the Central Vermont Council on Aging, Lifetime Arts and the Vermont Arts Council, 2021 - 2022
  • Completed a multi-day training with Lifetime Arts on designing creative aging programs, 2021
  • Listed on the VAC's Creative Aging Teaching Artists Roster, 2021 - present
  • Achieved Certification of Public Librarianship from Vermont Dept. of Libraries, 2023

Fee range:

$225.00 per hour or $525.00 to $700.00 plus per day, depending on program, size of audience mileage, etc... $2,000.00 - $5,0000, weekly, depending on program, size of audience, mileage, etc...

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • School / University
  • Virtual / Remote
  • Healthcare Facility

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors
  • College-age
  • Pre-Kindergarten-age

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Arts Integration - English Language / Literacy
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Design
  • Visual/Crafts

Certifications and Training:

  • Juried Teaching Artist with the Vermont Arts Council 2011 - Present
  • Participated in the Arts Connect development program for integrated arts, offered through the Integrated Arts Academy, in partnership with VSA Vermont, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington City Arts, and the Vermont Arts Council, 2016
  • Designed a Storytelling with Illustrations, Creative Aging Care Kit Program via the Central Vermont Council on Aging, Lifetime Arts and the Vermont Arts Council, 2021 - 2022
  • Completed a multi-day training with Lifetime Arts on designing creative aging programs, 2021
  • Listed on the VAC's Creative Aging Teaching Artists Roster, 2021 - present
  • Achieved Certification of Public Librarianship from Vermont Dept. of Libraries, 2023

Fee range:

$225.00 per hour or $525.00 to $700.00 plus per day, depending on program, size of audience mileage, etc... $2,000.00 - $5,0000, weekly, depending on program, size of audience, mileage, etc...

State Arts Agency Roster Artist

  • Vermont Teaching Artist Roster