Michele L’Heureux is a multi-disciplinary artist and maker of things. She received an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, an M.A. in Philosophy from Temple University, and a B.A. in Studio Arts from Wheaton College. She also earned a diploma in Carpentry from the North Bennet Street School in Boston.  Michele creates paintings, sculptures, prints, boxes, and books that incorporate collage, drawing, screenprinting, stenciling, painting, and other methods to create rich, textured surfaces.  This manipulation of surface and materials references the constant process of discarding, reviving, and recreating our identities and our surroundings.  Michele is particularly interested in ambiguity and fluidity as it relates to gender, and her most recent work examines–and attempts to dismantle–societal notions of gender and fixed and binary.