About
Charlie Michaels is a studio and community artist living in Southeast Michigan. His work focuses broadly on relationships between people, nature, and urban environments through exhibitions, ephemeral installations, works on paper, and public projects that engage youth and communities locally in Detroit and globally in Ghana and Indonesia. Charlie has taught local and international socially engaged arts courses at U-M and is currently Assistant Director of the Center for Socially Engaged Design in the UM College of Engineering. He has been a curator on the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since 2013. Charlie has received fellowships in socially engaged and community arts from National Arts Strategies, University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Social Impact Strategies, and the Vermont Studio Center.
