My work is inspired by contemplation of the natural world, and endeavors to reconcile the imprint of personal and collective memory with the present and unknown future. Allured by line and the phenomenon of color, I often find inspiration from compelling composition, and relationships of space structuring form. Themes of my practice consistently resort to ruminations on the power of the invisible, the power of recall, and the power of spirit in the eternal challenge between good and evil. 

Michelle Talibah is an artist/curator. Her unique range of professional visual arts participation includes public art, painting/ printmaking studio, and curatorial practice.

Her exhibition career began as a member of “AfriCobra”, while active as a public art muralist. Talibah has explored a broad range of media during residencies at The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York), Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), The Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, Vermont); and workshops at the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College (E.P.I), and The Penland School of Craft in North Carolina.

Her work as a public artist and curator spans more than forty years for project sites in Washington, D.C. region, and includes participation as a member of the artist team for three installations designed by the late contemporary artist Sol LeWitt permanent and temporary installations at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Washington D.C. Convention Center.

Michelle Talibah is the founding director and curator for New Door Creative gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. New Door Creative is aligned with the mission to broaden the exposure of prominent and emerging artists who explore an aesthetic informed by a wealth of perception, culture, and tradition. As a platform to share experiences and critically examine intersections of culture, New Door Creative has featured exhibitions that engage concepts ranging from volume and space to gentrification. For twenty-two years New Door Creative has exhibited artists from around the globe and is proud to have championed many women artists of color.

Highlights of Michelle’s public curatorial practice includes an installation by master artist Sam Gilliam, commissioned in 2015 for the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, Maryland. In collaboration with the Maryland Institute College of Art, she engineered the Art in the Airport program created to introduce the institution to a broader audience and promote international artists in non-transactional settings at Baltimore/Washington International, Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), Ronald Reagan, and Dulles National Airports. 

Michelle has studied at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, The University of Massachusetts-Boston; and holds a Master of Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.