D. Jeffrey Mims

Who is D. Jeffrey Mims?

D. Jeffrey Mims is a painter, educator, lecturer, and muralist working in the classical realist tradition.

Mims was born in North Carolina, USA. In 1976, he was awarded an Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation grant to copy masterworks in museums in England, France, and Italy. In 1981 Mims returned to Florence, Italy, where he studied with the American painter Ben Long for another year.

In recognition of his mural Fresco at the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Glendale Springs, NC, Classical America awarded Mims the Arthur Ross Award for "excellence and integrity in the application of classical ideals," In 2009, Mims was awarded the Alma Shapiro Prize, an Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome by The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. Mims Studios was launched in 2000 as a school of fine art based on a 19th century Beaux Arts curriculum. In 2011, the private studio school closed and was relaunched as the Academy of Classical Design in association with The Classical Design Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the education of artists.