"Conservatory" drawing/painting by Michelle Lassaline

Michelle Lassaline

Short bio

Michelle Lassaline is an interdisciplinary performance artist; her work is based in drawing, sewing, and storytelling. Lassaline has performed for the Nevada Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Holland Project, among others. She has received grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the City of Seattle, Artist Trust, 4Culture, and the Nevada Arts Council, and she is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the Maine College of Art and Design. Lassaline was raised in Carson City, Nevada, spent the formative years of her art practice in Reno, then moved to the Pacific Northwest where she now lives on an island in the Salish Sea on the unceded indigenous lands of the Coast Salish people.