Michele Brody

The success of Michele Brody’s work thrives on the interaction with new communities and environments. Since receiving her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1989 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994, she has utilized a strong background in the liberal and fiber arts to create site-specific, mixed-media installations, and works of public art that are generated by the history, culture, environment, nature and architecture of a wide range of venues.

As an Artist/Educator, Ms. Brody incorporates a similar practice by working in response to each classroom’s needs by developing a collaborative relationship with teachers so as to provide a uniquely integrated visual arts program. She has had experience working with all grades in the New York City Public School system through Studio in a School, Arts Horizons, Young Audiences and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Ms. Brody has had one person shows at the Atelier-galeried’Art Contemporain: Arras, France; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo: San Jose, Costa Rica; Dina4 Projekte: Munich, Germany; Temple Judea Museum: Elkins Park, PA; as well as Chashama, Littlejohn Contemporary, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. She has been the recipient of grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Pollock/Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts. She has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Quimby Colony, Ox-Bow and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, and has completed two permanent works of public art in NYC for the MTA and the Department of Education’s Public Art for Public Schools program.