artist, creative producer & consultant.

Michelle Daly(they/she) is an artist, creative facilitator, collaborator, and producer living and working on the unceded lands of the Muh-he-con-ne-ok in what is now known as the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.  

Their work always draws from interdisciplinary sources and from being in creative conversation with the world around them. Currently, they are thinking about restoration/destruction, refraction, accumulation & cycles of knowledge, porousness, somatic responses to water, climate science, waterkeepers, ocean justice, & queer temporality.

They earned their MA in Performance Curation from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University and a BFA with a concentration in Painting from Marylhurst University.  They have exhibited their artwork across the country, including solo or two-person exhibitions in Portland, OR, Los Angeles, CA, Brooklyn, NY, Manchester, VT, and North Adams, MA.

In 2021 they formed Daly Arts as the container for their creative, community-centered, curatorial, and consulting practices. As an independent consultant, they have worked with MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), and New England Presenters and produced projects at various cultural institutions including Jacob's Pillow, the Wexner Center for the Arts, PICA’s TBA Festival, New York Live Arts, and EMPAC.