FIERA MICHELE
Creative Writer & Visual Artist
KEY SKILLS
Creative writing: poetry, prose, and short story
Painting
Photography
Installations
EXPERIENCE
2008-Present
Visual Artist
Focuses on oil, acrylic and ink at Art on Main Studios and Gallery.
Commissioned four large scale paintings, two donated for auction 2019 to The Freedom Movement, and the Rainbow Roundup foundation.
Director of Photography and Visuals for Christian retail brand, 3:16.
Instructor
Leads workshop classes up to 50 participants.
Instructs parent-child and corporate abstract painting courses.
Participates in outreach programs at the Ronald McDonald House Dallas.
Creative Writer
Founder of Art Over Money, formed to amplify and support the voices and works of artists with mental disabilities.
Created a micro-poetry community following, which offers artists to share prose and poems created in a limited time frame.
EDUCATION
Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, TX - Associates of Science, May 2021
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Self Published poetry collection, “Whenever It Smells Like Rain.” June 2017
Book reading at The Wild Detectives, June 2017
Anthology participant, for “Stardust”, Waco Arts Festival July 2017
Book reading at 3535 Studios, August 2017
Art Exhibit for “The Pariah Escapes The Caste” at Highland Park United Methodist Church, July 2018
Participant in the “#USTOO” exhibition “Don’t Tell Me To Smile”, at the African American Museum of Dallas, February-May 2019
Poem reading at the Frisco Performing Arts Center, “Spoken Love Jonez” event February 2019
Art Exhibition at Christopher Parr Library, “Dots and Lines”, March 2019
Art Exhibition at Haggard Library, “Exploration of Color”, July-August 2019 Donated piece for The Freedom Fellowship, “Especially” November 2018
Donated piece for Rainbow Roundup foundation- “Love cannot be held in parenthesis”, November 2019
Art Exhibition at Harrington Library, “TBD”, November-December 2019