Photo credit: Jack Ramsdale

Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based abstract painter with an active studio practice. Her artwork is in several private/corporate collections including Toyota, Capital One, and Kaiser Permanente. She has exhibited internationally at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the Museum of Non-Conformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia.

She has been teaching English Composition and ESL for seventeen years and has been working ten years as an adjunct professor, teaching artists how to write. She gives faculty workshops about incorporating writing in the studio art classroom and artist statement and grant writing workshops to art professionals and students of all levels, ranging from high school to MFA candidates.

Kishita received both her BFA and MFA in painting from the University of the Arts and is represented by Edgewater Gallery. Her work is available to view online at www.michelekishita.com