Michele Guieu is an interdisciplinary environmental artist and educator who focuses on resilience in the face of the polycrisis. She specializes in art installations and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at venues such as MAC Paris, California Center for the Arts, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego City College Gallery, Currents New Media, ZER01 Biennial, San Diego Art Institute, De Saisset Museum, Santa Cruz Museum of Art.
Around 2017, Michele started to learn about the interconnected crises and the possibility of a systemic collapse. She focused all her energy on spreading the word about her learning. In 2020, she reached out to MAHB, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, a Stanford University initiative focused on sharing knowledge on how to avoid a civilizational collapse. Michele has become the Art Editor at MAHB, and invites artists to share their visions about the Anthropocene.
Michele is also involved in several other initiatives, including co-hosting the Artists and Creatives Group, part of the Deep Transformation Network created by Jeremy Lent.
Additionally, she created and curates the ongoing art project What’s Next for Earth, which is based on Richard Heinberg’s Think Resilience course at Post Carbon Institute. MAHB supports the project.
Furthermore, Michele has significantly contributed to education by creating “The Water Project: From our Watershed to the Ocean,” an integrated art and science curriculum for grades K-8 that centers around the Bay Area watershed and ecosystems. She has served on the Education Committee at Alliance for Youth Achievement (AYA) in San Jose and on the Education Committee at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga. She has taught in schools in underserved communities around San Jose for almost a decade. She presents professional development workshops for teachers at professional conferences and community workshops for people of all ages at public events and festivals.
Michele has lectured at several prestigious venues, including the FabLearn Conference at Stanford University, Montalvo Arts Center, Berkeley City College, Laney College, SJSU School of Art and Art History, Modernist Studies Conference, San Diego Museum of Art, Noel Baza Fine Art, Art Produce Gallery, and the San Diego Art Institute.
Originally from Marseille, France, Michele has lived in several locations worldwide, including Senegal and Paris, before moving to Santa Fe in 2000. Since then, she has resided in Austin (TX), Charlottesville (VA), San Diego, and the Bay Area (CA).
She recently moved to Bend, Oregon, with her husband to start an art farm focused on community resilience. The developing project includes art workshops and an artist residency.
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