Michelle Solley

Michelle Solley

About the Artist

Michelle Solley has been teaching art in schools for ten years and developing a wide-array of lessons for volunteers and parents. Her emphasis is on fostering creative expression in her students. She enjoys providing them with an environment where they feel comfortable with their abilities and will take creative risks with their work.
                                    

Credentials:

Michelle holds a Bachelor's degree in journalism with a focus on magazine graphics from Central Michigan University. Michell worked as a docent trainer for art programs in six different school districts in Southern California. She designed and taught workshps to volunteer docents to empower them to teach in individual classrooms. Michelle served on the Redondo Beach Public Art Task Force as well as the Redondo Beach Unified District "Arts for All" committee, helping to develop a ten-year plan for the district's visual and performing arts education. 

For a printable and downloadable lesson plan please see below.

Residencies:

1. Visual Poetry
2. Express Yourself: Students observe and discuss the works of Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Peter Max, George Rodrigue, Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko. Discussions and projects will center on the connections between color and music, surrealism, pop art, and abstract expressionists and the different techniques artists used to express themselves.
3. Raphael’s Renaissance Apprentices: using master artists’ techniques of image transfer and drawing with charcoal pencils: Students act as apprentices to Raphael as they learn the process of image transfer for Renaissance frescos. Students create a realistic charcoal pencil detail of one of the master’s drawings.