Brandon Mitchell

Visual Artist

Brandon Mitchell is Mi’gmaq from Listuguj First Nations in Quebec and currently resides in the unceded Wolastoqiyik territory of Fredericton, New Brunswick with his wife Natasha and their two boys Brayden and Bryce. He carries a diploma in Animation and Design from the NBCC of Miramichi and holds a master’s degree in Education from the University of New Brunswick. He is the founder of Birch Bark Comics and creator of the Sacred Circles comic series exploring his Mi’kmaq heritage through a contemporary lens.

He has authored six stories for Indigenous Story Studio: Lost Innocence, Drawing Hope, River Run, Making it Right, Emily’s Choice, and Tomorrow’s Hope. He was approached by the University of Alabama to script and illustrate Jean-Paul’s Daring Adventure: Stories from Old Mobile. He was also a contributing author of Migwite’tmeg: We Remember It which recounts the events leading up to the infamous salmon raids that took place in Listuguj in the summer of 1981. The contribution is part of the national best-selling graphic novel anthology series This Place: 150 Years retold by Highwater Press.

In 2020, Brandon, in collaboration with Charles Gaffney, was awarded an art installation contract to create a permanent art piece for Mount Carleton Provincial Park. Blending traditional Mi’kmaq petroglyph and hieroglyph designs, Brandon created a series of paintings to tell the visual Indigenous history of the land on carved wooden paddles, titled The Place We Gather.