Achievements/publications

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June 28, 2022 - The Roanoke Tribune (Roanoke Virginia)

November 2020 – “Teacher of Excellence Award” R.E.B. Foundation

Community Foundation Program (Richmond Virginia)

November 9, 2020- Virginia Department Juvenile Justice news (Community Foundation honors Djj Quilting instructor Roy Mitchell, Jr. for “Teaching Excellence”

December 6, 2020 Sunday Story: “Stitching a future” (Richmond Magazine)

March 14, 2018 – Artistic Artifacts (Alexandria Virginia)

September 29, 2016 – “Telling Stories Through The Needles Eye”

September 10, 2015 – Grand Blanc View Magazine

June 2018 – Sulky “The Creative Lifestyle - Teacher Certification

October 16, 2014 “Black Threads”

September 11, 2014- Flint Festival of Quilts (Guest Speaker)

September 6, 2014- African American Quilt Guild 25th anniversary (speaker)

May 27, 2015 – C-Ville Newspaper- Sewn together Quilting fosters growth in the juvenile justice system

September 2014 - Art of It.org

October 1, 2013 – My City Magazine

February 10, 2012 – Salisbury Post Newspaper (Salisbury, N.C.)

February 2012 – Charlotte Post (Charlotte N.C.)

2012 – Initiated Program in Male Juvenile Correctional Facility

February 2012- Commemorative quilt Livingstone College (Salisbury N.C.)

2012- Virginia Historical Society (3 quilts achieved for future history: 

2011- Selected by: MS Production “Original Sewing & Quilt Expo” for work to be displayed in traveling exhibit one of 15 artists selected for this exhibit

2011 Selected by MS Production: Original Sewing & Quilt Expo” for work to be displayed in traveling exhibit one of three artists for 2012 exhibit.

September 2011- Original Sewing & Quilt Expo (Traveling Exhibit) Chantilly Virginia

October 2011- Original Sewing & Quilt Expo: Kansas City Mo.

October 2011- Original Sewing & Quilt Expo: Atlanta Ga.

November 2011 – Original Sewing & Quilt Expo Minneapolis, Mo.

October 2010 – Quilter Save Our Stories George R. Brown Convention Center (Houston TX)

2010 – Selected by: Quilters Save Our Stories “If These Quilts Could Talk” exhibit one of 15 artists selected out of over 2,000.

June 2010 – National Quilting Association (Columbus, Oh)

February 2010 – Livingstone College (Salisbury N.C.)

February 2010 – Abundant Living Adult Day Care (Salisbury N.C.)

June 2008 – National Quilting Association (Columbus, OH)

July 2007 – West Africa Arts Center (Accra Ghana)

April 2009 – Quilters Heritage Celebration (Lancaster, PA)

February 2009- The Livingstone College News (Salisbury N.C.)

April 2009- quilters Heritage Celebration (Lancaster, PA)

December 29, 2008 – Louie B. Nunn Center for oral history University of Kentucky Libraries. 

March 2008 – Calvert County Quilt Guild (Southern Maryland)

June 2008 – National Quilting Association (Columbus, Oh)

October 2006 – The Charles Sumner Gallery Museum (Washington DC)

October 2005 – The Charles Sumner Gallery Museum (Washington DC)