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Artist Statement:
Michele was born in 1973 in
Miami, Arizona. She was
raised mostly in West Texas
and New Mexico and at the age
of 17, when her daughter was a
year old, she moved to
Philadelphia. She put herself
through school and worked hard
to provide for her daughter.
After seven years, she
returned to the southwest and
settled in Taos, New Mexico
for the next 9 years. She
first began exhibiting works
at silent auctions in Taos,
where she donated small wood
sculptures. These works were
priced from the 100 to 600
dollar range and sold
immediately. In Taos, Michele
was able to explore many
mediums and took private
classes from several local
Taos artists. When her
daughter graduated from Taos
High School and received a
full academic scholarship to
attend NYU, Michele decided to
spend more time delving into
Hindu practices and studies.
These studies have clearly
influenced her work. She has
recently returned from a four
month stay at her Guru’s
Ashram in India and is
currently working on finding
ways to balance her desire to
be completely immersed in her
Spiritual life with the
necessity of financial
independence. “While it is
necessary for me to be ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2000: Taos Charter School,
Taos, NM: Silent Auction
Donation - wood sculpture
2000 & 2001: Northern New
Mexico Midwifery Center, Taos,
NM: Silent Auction Donation -
wood sculpture
2000 & 2001: Taos Canyon Art
Tour, Laurie Hill Phelps
Studio, Taos, NM: wood
sculpture
2002 & 2007: Taos Art
Association, Taos Open, Taos,
NM: wood sculpture, ...
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Michele Artist Biography:
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Age
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38
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
organic gardening, wildcrafting and herbal medicine, vegetarian cooking, writing, devotion, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, love, music, silence, krishna, joy, beauty = art |
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I am a child of the Goddess...pure and free and wild. I paint and sing and dance and cry and retreat into caves of emptiness when I can no longer bear the noise of the world.
If you try to control me or confine me I will disappear and you may never see me again. I cannot be owned by you I cannot be ruled by you. I would prefer to simply die than to allow your limited beliefs to shackle my Spirit.
Butterflies are beautiful...you have to just let them fly freely...An artist is not someone whose art is confined to the limits of one canvas. |
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