Michelle's profile
Michelle Talibah is an artist/ curator, whose practice in the visual arts is unique. Her professional visual arts participation includes that as painter, public artist, educator and curator.
Over the past thirty years, she has achieved national acclaim as a painter, and has exhibited in galleries and visual art venues throughout the United States. She is the recipient of the D.C. Commission/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1993, and has worked with a broad range of media during artist residency at Gettysburg College, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Vermont Studio Center; and most recently, at the Experimental Printmaking Studio at Lafayette College.
Her work as public artist spans more than thirty years, and includes that as muralist, to create three murals designed by the late Sol LeWitt, installed permanently at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center, and Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum.
In 2004 she became the founding director of New Door Creative Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, featuring the work of emerging artists, and artists of international renown. The pioneer gallery was the first to originate in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District in 2006, and is an Ambassador Site for the distinguished David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In 2008, she initiated collaboration with non-profit arts institutions for extended exhibitions at Thurgood Marshall/BWI International and Reagan National airports, engaging regional visual artists as curator; and is currently a member of the Arts Committee for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
Michelle has studied at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; The University of Massachusetts-Boston, and holds a Masters of Art degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in digital art. She has traveled throughout the United States, and to Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East; continually exploring the diverse range of creative expression.
Over the past thirty years, she has achieved national acclaim as a painter, and has exhibited in galleries and visual art venues throughout the United States. She is the recipient of the D.C. Commission/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1993, and has worked with a broad range of media during artist residency at Gettysburg College, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Vermont Studio Center; and most recently, at the Experimental Printmaking Studio at Lafayette College.
Her work as public artist spans more than thirty years, and includes that as muralist, to create three murals designed by the late Sol LeWitt, installed permanently at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center, and Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum.
In 2004 she became the founding director of New Door Creative Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, featuring the work of emerging artists, and artists of international renown. The pioneer gallery was the first to originate in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District in 2006, and is an Ambassador Site for the distinguished David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In 2008, she initiated collaboration with non-profit arts institutions for extended exhibitions at Thurgood Marshall/BWI International and Reagan National airports, engaging regional visual artists as curator; and is currently a member of the Arts Committee for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
Michelle has studied at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; The University of Massachusetts-Boston, and holds a Masters of Art degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in digital art. She has traveled throughout the United States, and to Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East; continually exploring the diverse range of creative expression.
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