Mary Mitchell Avery and her brother, Dewey Mitchell donated $1 million to the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art at St. Petersburg College in honor of their late brother James W. Mitchell Jr., a Tampa gallery owner.
James, a Tampa gallery owner who, along with the siblings’ late mother Dorothy Mitchell, were supporters of the arts, in the region and beyond.
Most notably, James and his mother made vital gallery space available for the Berghoff-Cowden Editions printmaking workshop. Today, the museum on SPC’s Tarpon Springs Campus is home to the Dorothy Mitchell Collection, which includes the complete archive of prints produced by Lois Berghoff and Dorothy Cowden, as well as other printmaking artists.
