Michele Brody
BRAC Teaching Artist, mixed-media, environmental, paper making, 2010 - Present
Michele Brody is an environmental community-based artist who has had one-person shows in France, Costa Rica, Chicago, Germany and throughout New York City with chashama, Littlejohn Contemporary, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Julio Valdez Project Space, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Brody has kept up a full time studio/exhibition practice for the past 25 years while working as an Artist/Educator throughout New York City. She has been the recipient of a grant or residency almost every year since 1995 from such organizations as the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Pollock/Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Bronx Council on the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, and has worked as an Artist-in-Residence at Skowhegan, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Ox-Bow, Emmanuel College, MASS MoCA, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation and Wave Hill Winter Workspace. In 2011 she was awarded Best 3-D Entry at the international Art Prize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has completed two permanent public works of art for the MTA and DOE in The Bronx where she currently resides and works.
Why I Teach: “
As an Artist/Educator, I continuously strive to facilitate a student-centered environment that encourages an open dialogue. My goal is to generate a free exchange of processes and ideas through the cross-fertilization of disciplines. I teach so that my work can illuminate the unobserved beauty of our day-to-day surroundings and the challenges facing our environment.
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Borderlines, 2019, handmade abaca paper with layers of mulberry paper from Brooklyn and day lilies from Bronx Park
Hosta Hot House, 2018, handmade paper from Hosta plants gathered from Wave Hill Garden