bio:
Michelle Laxalt is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with ceramics, paper, and found objects. Her biomorphic, visceral artwork explores the fluid, transitional nature of human, animal, and botanical bodies. Rooted in an awareness of mortality, her work reflects the beauty, burden, and fragility of shared corporeality in our entangled world where nothing lasts and everything transforms.

Laxalt has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has attended artist residencies and workshops at the Hambidge Center, Vermont Studio Center, and Penland School of Craft. Her work is held in the collections of the Richardson Family Art Museum (Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC); the Oats Park Art Center (Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, NV); the National Center for Contemporary Arts (Minsk, Belarus); the Welch Fellowship Alumni Collection (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA); and in numerous personal collections throughout the United States.

Laxalt holds an MFA in Ceramics from Georgia State University, where she was a distinguished Welch Fellow, and a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Nevada, Reno (her hometown). Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Laxalt is a passionate arts educator and has worked with a range of arts institutions and students throughout the region. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Visual Arts at Morehouse College.