Short Professional Bio

Mindy Flexer is a magical realist oil painter, a teaching artist, and an activist. She is in the long lineage of Philadelphia figure painters working in the space between observation and invention, and part of the tradition of using art for social change.

She has exhibited at Woodmere Art Museum, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art in City Hall, InLiquid Art + Design, and other venues. She teaches at her studio, the home of Mindy Flexer Art School, at residencies, and at Building 21, an alternative public high school. She also teaches at Woodmere, where she creates an annual immersive, floor-to-ceiling installations with young artists. She has done activist projects with POWER Interfaith, Sunrise Movement, Indivisible and other organizations. She holds a BA from Oberlin College, a BFA from The University of the Arts, and an MEd in Art from Tyler School of Art. She has also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Art Students League of New York.

Mindy loves sharing her passion for art with people of all ages and walks of life, and believes in the power of art to transform people, communities, and the world.