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Solo and 2-Person Exhibits:

2008
2007
2006

2005
2004
2003
2002
2000
1997
1993
1992

Kaleid Gallery, San Jose
Environmental Surrealists — Esteban Sabar Gallery, Oakland, CA (2-person show)
Animal Insurrection — Gallery at Thoreau, San Francisco, CA
Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
Spectators to Destruction — First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
What the Animals Tell Me — Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA (2-person show)
Institute for the Study of Women and Gender, Stanford University, CA
Ecology Center, Berkeley, CA
Women's Center, U.C. Santa Cruz (2-person show)
Women's Center, U.C. Santa Cruz
Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz
Environmental Center, Henry Cowell State Park, Felton, CA

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Artist's X-Change — San Francisco, CA
Yelling at Your Environment! — Harrington Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Kaleid Gallery, San Jose, CA
Global Warming: Artists Speak — Orange County Ctr for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana
Gente, Casas y Barrios — MACLA, San Jose, CA
On the Wing — Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA
California Centered: the Environment — Merced Multicultural Art Center, Merced, CA
Los Gatos Art Museum Juried Exhibit — Marian Parmenter, juror
Housewarming—Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Vanishing Borders - Contemporary Environmental Art —
     Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
Flux — Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Earth and Sky — Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
Trashed: The Dark Side of the American Dream — Gallery Route One,
     Point Reyes Station, CA (3-person show)
Alpha/Omega — Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
Crocker-Kingsley Exhibit — Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA; Mel Ramos, juror
Fools — Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Nature's Inspirations — The Farm, Woodside, CA
Art & Politics — O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
Los Gatos Art Museum Juried Exhibit — juried by Phil Linhares
Globalization — Campbell Hall Art Gallery, University of Western Oregon
Blue — Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Arts on Fire — Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA; Keith Morrison, juror
A Woman's Place — Rose Shenson Gallery, Santa Clara, CA
Eco2 — Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA,
      curators: Beth Goldberg and Judith Selby
Womanspeak - Rose Shenson Gallery, Santa Clara, CA
Eco-Art is Eco-Activism - Arts & Consciousness Gallery, JFK University, Berkeley
Wild Things - Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA
Group Show - Gavilan College Gallery, Gilroy, CA
Beyond the Rules — California College of Art and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
ANA 29 — Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT; Lucy Lippard, juror
California Juried Show — Los Gatos Art Museum, Los Gatos, CA
Group Show — Gallery E.G.G., Chicago, IL
Earth Day Show — Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA
Women to Watch For — Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA
Political Art & Propaganda — Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, CA
Animals and Humans on the Brink — Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA (curator)
"Dear Mother Earth: "— Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA; Jo Hanson, curator
In Time and Eye — Society for Ecological Restoration convention, San Francisco
Enchanting the Millennium: Postmodern Mythology — Gallery E.G.G., Chicago, IL
Inspiring Women — Women's Center, U.C. Santa Cruz (curator)
"Dear Mother Earth: "— Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA; Jo Hanson, curator
Honoring the Feminine — Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
The Age of Women — Somar Gallery, San Francisco
Dios de los Muertos — Atelier Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Harvest Show — Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA
For the Seventh Generation — Santa Cruz County Government Ctr, Santa Cruz, CA
Women's Issues, Women's Culture — Women's Center, U.C. Santa Cruz
Under the Sea — Gallery Concord, Concord, CA
For the Seventh Generation — Atelier Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
American Goddess — Primal Visions Gallery, Santa Cruz
Ancestors, Icons, Spirits & Visions — Primal Visions Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
The Personal is Political, the Political is Personal — Stevenson Library, U.C.S.C.
Dios de los Muertos — San Francisco State University Student Union Gallery
4th Annual Juried Exhibit— Coastal Art League, Half Moon Bay, CA
Oceans Festival Art Exhibit — Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
What Have We Got to Lose? Artists and the Environmental Crisis —
     Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
Fate of the Animals — Worth Ryder Art Gallery, U.C. Berkeley
Animalscapes '87 — North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Arts For a Better World — San Francisco State University Student Union Gallery

Awards:

2007

2004

2003

1990

2nd place, Painting category, juried exhibition at Los Gatos Art Museum,
awarded by juror Marian Parmenter
Honorable Mention, Painting, statewide juried exhibition at Los Gatos Art Museum, awarded by juror Phil Linhares
1st place, Arts on Fire statewide juried exhibition at Sanchez Art Center,
awarded by juror Keith Morrison
1st place, Art for Animals Classic. Sponsored by the National Anti-Vivisection Society

Bibliography:

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2003
2001

Featured Artist, Satya Magazine, February issue
Shotgun Review, May 22, 2006, "Michelle Waters' 'Animal Insurrection' at The Thoreau Center Gallery" by DeWitt Cheng
North Coast Journal, Thursday, October 20, "Eco-Art", art beat column
by Katherine Almy

Saratoga News, Saratoga Sampler, April 13, 2005
Pacifica Tribune, June 9, 2004, "Sanchez Art Center Celebrating Coming of Summer With Environmental Activist Art"
Saratoga News, Saratoga Sampler, October 13, 2004
Artweek, March 2003, Reviews, "Eco2 at Falkirk Cultural Center" by Frank Cebulski
Face of the Future (Seoul, Korea), "Ecofeminism" by Ahn Ji-Young

Artist Talks:
2004
1999
1998
Sanchez Art Center
Women Environmental Artists (with Jo Hanson), Women's Caucus for Art Lecture Series Panelist, Women Environmental Artists, Women's Caucus for Art Regional Conference
Art-Related Professional Experience:
Freelance web designer
Board Member (website coordinator) for Works San Jose Gallery, July 2005 - present
Publications:
Artwork published in the following periodicals: Satya, Animals' Voice, In These Times, Sage Woman, Terrain, and Wild Earth. We'Moon Women's Art Calendar '96 (cover art), '99, '00, '03
Education:
B.A. Studio Art, University of California, Santa Cruz
Digital media, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
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