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Group Exhibitions

2018

Ceramics Student Show, PCC, Portland, OR

2015

New Work, The Waypost, Portland, OR

2014

OCAC Alumni Show, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, OR

2013

31:13, 10th & Hoyt Gallery, Portland, OR

Thesis Show, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, OR

Book Arts Show, Centrum Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR

2012

100 For 100, Geezer Gallery, Portland, OR

Book Arts Show, Centrum Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR

2011

Invisible Cities and Hidden Landscapes,
Trinity Saint David, Carmarthen, Wales;
the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK; Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS; Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Award: Best of Show, OCAC, for 'Procopia'

Juried Student Show, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, OR
Award: Honorable Mention for 'Eggshell Fragile Human Hearts'

Print Portfolio, 20th Anniversary, Sellwood Yoga Studio; Hoffman Gallery, Portland, OR

Book Arts Show, Centrum Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR

Solo Exhibitions

2014

Force, Back Matter @ 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR

The Sibling Series & More, Gravitate Design, Vancouver, WA

Publication

The Chief, Crux Magazine, March 2020

Sibling Series, VoiceCatcher Online Journal, Winter 2015

Moving (writing), Analogy Magazine, 2012

Education

Oregon College of Art & Craft, BFA - Craft, 2013

Glendale Community College, AAS - Graphic Design, 2007

Scholarship to Penland School of Crafts summer session, 2012

Employment

Sign Artist, Trader Joe's - 2013 - Present

Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Michelle Iris Latham works in a variety of media including printmaking, book and box making, drawing, painting, and ceramics.

She earned her BFA in Craft with an emphasis in Book Arts & Printmaking from Oregon College of Art and Craft.

"I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason - Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining
content with half-knowledge. This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
-John Keats

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