Michele Rosett

I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I moved to San Francisco at sixteen and never looked back. I have always had a passion for art and a need to create.

Throughout my life, I was always taking classes or workshops in whatever medium intrigued me, while working full time. I was a self-employed craftsperson in the Bay Area in the 1970s. In 1980, my husband and I started Mishi Apparel, a natural fiber clothing company for women. I was the designer, retail manager, and vice-president for 20 years. Getting breast cancer in 1997 was a turning point in my life.

I left the business and moved into my first full-time art studio. I began to paint in watercolors, wanting to share the beauty I saw in the local landscape. I am fascinated by the natural world and the relationship between nature and man. In my painting, I share my inner feelings and thoughts about the art of living on Earth. After working in watercolor for twelve years, I started feeling limited by the medium. Watercolor required left-brain thought and planning, but I wanted to work more intuitively.

I was interested in expressing my ideas and thoughts rather than what I was seeing and feeling. I started working with acrylic paints and mediums, creating layers of ...

Michele Rosett
Fine Artist

b. 1950 Atlantic City, New Jersey

1975-1980 Fiber Artist-Masks and Faces /American Arts Council
1981-1997 Founder/Owner Mishi Apparel/Clothing Designer
1990 S.F. StoreFocus Retail Excellence Award
1999-2015 Sonoma Arts Council/ Juried Studio Tour
2003-2004 Featured Artist Santana Row, San Jose California
2004 Poster Artist “Spirit of Color” Fundraiser
2004-2012 Member San Francisco Society of Fine Artists showing throughout San Francisco
2005-2006 Gallery Artist/Plaza Art Gallery, Healdsburg, Ca.
2006 Gallery Artist/The Artists Alley, San Francisco, California
2008 Aurora Colors Gallery, “Abstract, Color and Texture”
2008-2009 Riverfront Art Gallery, Petaluma, California/ Gallery Artist
2009 Sandhill Crane Festival/First Prize
2010 Falkirk Cultural Center, Juror Donna Seager,
2010 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Bay Area Women’s Artists
2010 Invited Artist Gallery One, Petaluma,Ca. “New Possibilities” and “Grisman, Gonnella, Rosett”
2011-2013 Red Wolf Gallery, Sonoma California/Gallery Artist
2013 Los Altos Art Show/ Mayor’s Award
2011-2014 The Vintage Festival, Sonoma, Ca.
2014-2016 Gallery One, Petaluma Ca.
2016 The Ice House Gallery, Petaluma, Ca.

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