Michelle Posadas

Michelle will travel to the Philippines and record oral histories of her family members and activists. She will create a multi-media art performance about the current political climate and the experience of her subjects with resistance movements of the past. This piece will be presented at the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia in February 2008.

Michelle is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes puppetry, performance, sculpture, photography, illustration, video, web design, and installation. She creates art that directly responds to issues she is deeply moved by on topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the gentrification of her neighborhood. Her previous work has been around her identity and she is moving toward making work that engages directly with organizations and becomes part of activist campaigns about the Philippines, queerness, being bi-racial, politics in Philadelphia, and the 2008 United States presidential election. Michelle is a teaching artist and has worked with Bread and Puppet Theater, Spiral Q Puppet Theater, and Dream Community in Taiwan.