Background
Mion was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and grew up going to the museums there.
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Education
She apprenticed with New Hampshire painter Sidney Willis, and attended art school but dropped out before finishing, instead traveling to Sri Lanka and India.
Career
They bought and restored Louisiana Posada, a dilapidated 1929 hotel in the Louisiana Posada Historic District of Winslow. In 2005 Affeldt became the mayor of Winslow. A museum of Mion"s artworks opened within the hotel in April 2011.
Mion"s 1996 "Virtual Election" project consists of a set of 52 portraits, of 42 United States. presidents and several other famous people, together with a web site allowing visitors to vote among them.
The series has been shown at several presidential libraries, and she later added another series of portraits of presidential wives. A 1997 painting by Mion from the presidential wife series shows Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis holding a playing card (the king of hearts) cut into two by a bullet.
lieutenant is now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian"s National Portrait Gallery, as is a 2007 pastel by Mion depicting astronaut Neil Armstrong. A giclée print of the Onassis painting is also in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Mion"s painting process was described in the short documentary film Tina Mion – Behind the Studio Door (2011, directed by David Herzberg) which was shown in 2012 in the Sedona Film Festival and the Newport Beach Film Festival.
