A visit to an exhibition featuring the work of Michele Chisholm Leavitt is sure to be an adventure. Although the recipient of college degrees in painting and design, she constantly explores new aesthetic dimensions using original techniques and new solutions to old problems. She has chosen to use collage extensively to create mosaic - like constructions that often contain cogent statements about current political and social events, and she has designed beautiful rugs on such themes as well, to be woven by the expert weavers of Turkey.

Installations are a very popular dimension of Michele's art. As a major show took shape at the Newport Art Museum with a generous grant from the Rhode Island Foundation, it became evident that most of the work that she had been working on for the previous five years fit perfectly in the theme for this installation, which she had titled "Too Close for Comfort." A second installation was assembled for an exhibition named "Tears" at the University of Virginia Art Museum.

More projects by Michele carrying messages of this kind can be expected, along with many adventures with unusual or rediscovered techniques. Among the most fascinating are a series of landscapes and seascapes made with scraps of fabric sewn into an intricate design. One of these, Northern Shore in on exhibition in the American Embassy in Lithuania. Keep watching this site for Michele¹s newest ideas.