Biography and Resume

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Biography               

Michele was born in Rochester, New York, where she attended grade school and high school. She later moved to Colorado and received her BA from Colorado State University.

She has been living in the Bay Area since 1985.

For over 15 years Michele has been painting and exhibiting her artwork in locations throughout the Bay Area and elsewhere.  Her collectors have described her work as spirited.

 Michele has been working at Cedars Fine Art Studios, in San Anselmo, California since 2003. Her time there has been devoted to art instruction, curatorial tasks, and studio management.  With her colleagues, who are artists themselves, she shares a commitment to art, creativity and artistic service.

Partial Resume          

Selected Exhibitions

2019 Harmony, Artist Within: A Cedars Gallery, San Anselmo, CA

2019 Marin Open Studios, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA

2018 Marin Open Studios, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA 

2017 Marin Open Studios, Cedars Fine Art Studios, San Anselmo, CA

2017 Printmaking: Impressions, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

2016 Marin Open Studios, Cedars Fine Art Studios, San Anselmo, CA

2013 68th Annual Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA

2012 Reconfiguration, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

2010 The Visual Word, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

2010 Artists of Marin MOCA, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

2010 Make it Shine, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

2009 To Celebrate Life, Breast Cancer Fundraiser, Kentfield, CA

2009 64th Annual Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA

2009 Burke Williams Spa, San Francisco, CA

2009 Concierges of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

2009 World Wildlife Fund Benefit, San Francisco, CA

2008 Prosthetics Silent Auction, San Francisco, CA

2008 Green Action Benefit, San Francisco, CA

2008 15th Annual Marin Arts Council, Open Studios, Novato, CA

2007 Abstract 9 Group Show, San Francisco, CA

2007 14th Annual Marin Open Studios, San Anselmo, CA

2006 Fall Showcase, NorthBay Artworks Novato, CA

2006 61st Annual Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA

2005 In the Abstract, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

2005 Red, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

2005 Motion Emotion, Art League of Northern CA, Novato Arts Center, Novato, CA

2005 12th Annual Marin Open Studios, San Anselmo, CA

2004 Hands for Peace, International Artworks, Mocha Museum, Oakland, CA

2003 Of the Earth, Indian Valley Artists, Novato, CA

2002 Hands Around the World, The Cannery, San Francisco, CA

Awards

2003 In Recognition of Outstanding Artistic Representation, Of the Earth, Juried Show,

Indian Valley Artists, Novato, CA

Representation

2010-2007  Artist’s A Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Education

2017  The Urban Art Retreat, Tesia Blackburn, San Francisco, CA

2015 San Francisco Studio School, San Francisco, CA

2008-2006  Master’s Abstract Painting, Tesia Blackburn, San Francisco, CA 

2004-2002  Abstract Painting, Ann Baldwin, San Rafael, CA 

2002-2000 Painting and Design, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA 

2001 Painting and Collage Techniques, Jonathan Talbot, Ashland Art Institute, Ashland, OR

2001 Abstract Painting, Mary Beth Shaw, Sausalito, CA