Michelle Vezina Peterlin
Artist Bio
Michelle Vezina Peterlin is an American Artist.
She was born in Gardner, Massachusetts. She is a second-generation American on her maternal side. Her artistic ability expressed itself around the age of 5. At this time, her parents had the foresight to enroll her in private art lessons. She spent her youth receiving training from the Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts. She received her bachelor's degree in painting from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. At UMASS, she was fortunate to study under master painters, John Grillo and Leonel Gongora.
She spent the first 10 years of her career as an art curator at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Historic New Harmony (Indiana), and the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art (Indiana). In 1993, she and her husband relocated to Southern Indiana. In 1998, she decided to leave the curator field to raise her children with her husband and paint full-time.
She is currently an adjunct painting professor at the University of Evansville. She is an elected member of the Rhode Island Art League. She is a member of the National Acrylic & Oil Painters Society. She is the art director and board member at the New Harmony Artists' Guild in New Harmony, Indiana.
Her most recent work has evolved around being Jewish, American, and a woman in a world of conflict. Many of the models are family members. Her compositions have to do with peace, war, conflict, folklore, and religion. She uses universal symbols for peace, conflict, good and evil.
Latest Exhibitions
- 2019 -Hera Gallery, In God We Trust: Reflections on Religion in America, South Kingstown, Rhode lsland
- 2019-Light House Arts Center, Tattoo: The Renaissance of Body Art, Tequesta, Florida
- 2019-Intersect Arts Center, Fall Exhibition, St Louis, Missouri
- 2020- Attleboro Arts Museum, On the Surface Exhibit, Attleboro, Massachusetts
- 2020-Hudson Valley Art Association, 87th Annual Juried Exhibit, Old Lyme, Connecticut
- 2020- Flagler County Art League, Heros Exhibit, Palm Coast, Florida
- 2021-Bird is the Word, Virtual Gallery Show, Florida
- 2021-Providence Art Club, National Open Juried Exhibition, Providence, Rhode Island
- 2022-Art Fluent, Unity Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts
- 2022-Exhibizone Publication, Magix: Dream, Fantasy, Illusion. Featured.
- 2022-Artistonish Magazine, Featured.
- 2022 Art St. Louis XXXIII: The Exhibition, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
- 2022 Planturium Magazine, Trees, Leaves, Flowers Exhibit Publication
- 2022 Member Show, Hoosier Salon, New Harmony, Indiana
- 2023 ArtGalleryring.com, Color Exhibit
- 2023 Elected Member Exhibit, Rhode Island Art League, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
- 2023 First Brush of Spring, Hoosier Salon, New Harmony, Indiana
- 2024 War Exhibit, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, New York (scheduled for February)