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Biography
Originally from North Dakota, Michelle Brusegaard is an artist specializing in oils, photography and wax-painting (batik).
Typically, she exploits the figure in paintings, choosing to explore still lives mostly through photography. Her work in
Batik explores the world of pattern and balanced design while maintaining an elusive harmony with fluid wax.
Through all of this, Brusegaard hopes to create or represent realities false and imagined while commenting on the sometimes
heartwrenching truth of banality.

She earned her BFA at the University of North Dakota in 2005, concentrating in Painting and Photography. Her curiosity about
art began at an early age, watching her grandmother paint traditional still-lives and landscapes.
Exhibition Experience 2.4.09 NDMOA Spring Auction Exhibitor Grand
Forks, ND
12.06.08 The Handmaidens' Present Craftmas! Minneapolis,
MN 12.04.08 + 12.5.08
No Coast Craft-o-Rama Minneapolis, MN 11.08.08 Wrap
it Up Holiday Art Show Minneapolis, MN October 12th, 2008 The Handmaidens'
Rocktober Sale James Ballentine VFW Minneapolis, MN
September
2008 Teeny Tiny Art Show No. 3 Exhibitor Portsmouth, NH
September
13 + 14, 2008 Renegade Craft Fair Vendor Chicago, IL June 14th-15th, 2008
The Grand Cities Art Fest Featured Artist Grand Forks, ND May 4th, 2008 The Handmaidens'
Spring Fling James Ballentine VFW Minneapolis, MN May 3rd, 2008 Crafted Together White
Bear Lake, MN April 26th, 2008 St.Paul Craftstravaganza St.Paul. MN February 5th, 2008
The Handmaiden's Make_Out Goods Show James Ballentine VFW Minneapolis, MN January 31-February
28, 2008 "Bitter Fruits" Altered Esthetics Gallery Minneapolis, MN 55413 2.10.08
The Handmaidens' Make Out Goods Show James Ballantine VFW Minneapolis, MN January 2008
"Collecting Local" Group Exhibit North Dakota Museum of Art February 2nd, 2008 Annual Benefit Dinner Exhibitor North Dakota Museum of Art 12.9.07 The Handmaidens' Craftmas
Spectacular James Ballantine VFW Minneapolis, MN 11.31.07-12.1.07 No Coast Craft-o-Rama Midtown Global Market Minneapolis, MN 11.9.07 Wrap it Up Holiday Art Show Minneapolis, MN
9.17.07-11.09.07 2007 Small Works Juried Exhibition at the Wein Gallery Exhibitor Wein Gallery,
Presentation College, Aberdeen, SD 8.18.07 North Valley Art's Council's Art & Wine Walk The Blue Moose, East Grand Forks, MN 8.23.07-9.20.07 "Fashion Plates and Other Recent Work Solo
Exhibition The Third Street Gallery Grand Forks, ND 7.21.07 & 7.22.07 Art in the Park Exhibitor Bemidji, MN Award of Excellence Recipient 7.07 The Third Street Gallery's
2nd annual Art Auction Exhibitor The Third Street Gallery, Grand Forks, ND 6.9.07 & 6.10.07 Grand Cities Art Fest Exhibitor Grand Forks, ND Awarded Best in Show 4.28.07 St Paul
Craftstravaganza Exhibitor St. Paul, MN 02.07 North Dakota Museum of Art Spring Art Auction
and Benefit Dinner Exhibitor NDMOA Grand Forks, ND 10.13.06-11.3.06 The Art of Horror
Exhibitor Altered Esthetics Gallery Minneapolis, MN 10.7.06-10.30.06 Homebody Solo
Exhibition The Third Street Gallery Grand Forks, ND July 2006 Third Street Gallery 1st Annual
Art Auction Exhibitor Grand Forks, ND 6.10.06-6.11.06 Grand Cities Art Fest Exhibitor Awarded
Best in Category: Mixed Media & Best in Show: 2nd Runner-up Downtown Grand Forks, ND February
2006 North Dakota Museum of Art Spring Art Auction Exhibitor Grand Forks, ND 7.17.05-8.17.05
Women in the Arts: Part II World's Smallest Gallery in the Urban Stampede Grand Forks, ND 7.15.05-7.15.06 Hotel Donaldson Graduate Scholarship Solo Exhibition One room in the hotel featured
my work for one year Fargo, ND 6.25.05-7.31.05 The Post Office Restaurant Group Exhibition
Cooperstown, ND 6.11.05-6.12.05 Grand Cities Art Fest Exhibitor Featured "Artist in Action"
Downtown Grand Forks, ND 5.31.05-6.9.05 People and Objects Solo BFA Exhibition Hughes
Fine Arts Center Grand Forks, ND April 2005 Annual Juried Student Exhibition University Of
North Dakota Hughes Fine Arts Center Grand Forks, ND 2.05-4.05 The Post Office Restaurant Group
Exhibition Cooperstown, ND 7.14.04-9.2.04 Solo Exhibition World's Smallest Gallery in the
Urban Stampede Grand Forks, ND 6.12.04-6.13.04 Grand Cities Art Fest Exhibitor Chosen
for Emerging Artist Program Downtown Grand Forks, ND June 2003 Lane County Fair Honorable Mention
in Photography Eugene, OR April 2003 Annual Juried Student Exhibition Lane Community College
Eugene, OR Ongoing Sanders Restaurant Grand Forks, ND North
Dakota Museum of Art Gift Shop (Scarves) Grand Forks, North Dakota The Post Office Restaurant Cooperstown, ND I Like You 4222 Nicollet Ave S Minneapolis, MN You Are Here Gallery
Grand Forks, ND Tender Loving Empire Portland, OR The Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland, OR Elsa + Sam Portland, OR
Three Graces Gallery Portsmouth,
NH
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