This is my version of a contemporary journaling process as a trauma informed artists-art educator and cultural collaborator.

Artist should serve the community within which they work. My interest has always been rooted in educational outreach, although I am only now beginning to understand what that means. Education should be practiced as an equitable transaction, with reciprocity and informed collaboration rooted in stabilizing community to this moment in time, place, and identity. The personal is political, we can't forget!

Michelle Anne Harris is a Philadelphia based artist and Co Director of Big Ramp, where she is Head of Special Programs and Community Outreach. Her art and teaching practices are rooted in her background as a trauma informed early childhood art educator. Michelle has an interdisciplinary approach to creating that includes printmaking, photography, painting, book arts, poetry and sculpture. She received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in photography and art education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Michelle has developed educational art programming for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Art Institute of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, and Mural Arts Philadelphia.

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