The Anacortes Museum announced this week a new self-guided, smartphone tour of the Bill Mitchell Mural Project. Anyone with a smartphone is invited to log onto: billmitchellmuralproject.org and begin exploring the Anacortes history spotlighted by the late Bill Mitchell. “Mitchell was a muralist, cartoonist, artist, local historian, pirate and overall scallywag – who was born […]
If you’re curious about the dozens of Bill Mitchell murals posted on walls around town, check out the current Anacortes Museum display.
Saturday, May 2 offers a special opportunity: local artist Bill Mitchell will be “unmasked” at the 2:30 p.m. grand opening of an Anacortes Museum display dedicated to his mural work. “Come celebrate with us the 25th Anniversary of the Anacortes Mural Project,” reads a museum flyer. “Murals Unmasked looks at the people and the process, […]
This downtown mural by artist/historian Bill Mitchell pays tribute to two Anacortes men who fought in World War I. On the left is Wallie Funk, Sr., a mural crafted after a photograph taken in France in 1917. On the right is Charles Pinson, USN, USS Chabaulip, 1917. Funk’s son Wallie owned the Anacortes American in […]
Among working artists featured at the 2005 Anacortes Arts Festival was Bill Mitchell, creator of dozens of historic murals mounted on the walls of buildings throughout this seaside community. Here Bill works on what will be his sixth dragon mural for the community. See more photos, Activities section under “Working artists 2005.”