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Native Houstonian Will Michels graduated with honors in 1991 from Pratt Institute with a degree in architecture. After graduating he became the project architect in charge of restoring the Battleship TEXAS, a World War I era Dreadnaught. At this time, he consciously began to explore fine art photography. His focus over the last 15 years has covered a variety of subjects: a series of introspective self portraits, a collection of over 200 environmental portraits of U.S.S. TEXAS veterans, and a series documenting living history, specifically a reenactment of the battle of Iwo Jima. Michels has received generous grants from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston, the Summerlee Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc., and Artadia 2006. He currently lives in Houston and works at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where he teaches young aspiring photographers. [Courtesy of Watermark Fine Art Photographs & Books, September 2007] Exhibitions 2006 Living History: Photographs by Will Michels, Watermark Fine Art, Houston, TX 2006 An Act of Dedication and Perseverence, Iwo Jima + 60, FotoFest 2006, The Galveston Arts Center, TX 2005 Authenticity of Memory: Alternative Processes, The Houston Center for Photography, TX 2004 CREW: The Men of the U.S.S. TEXAS, The College of the Main Land 2004 CREW: The Men of the U.S.S. TEXAS, FotoFest 2004, The Galveston Arts Center, TX 2002 Defining the Portrait: Photographs by Paul Smead & Will Michels, FotoFest 2002 1999 CREW: The Men of the U.S.S. TEXAS, Gallery X, The Houston Center for Photography, TX 1997 Figuring the Body, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Group Exhibition) Honors and Awards 2006 Artadia 2005 Honorable mention, Santa Fe Center for Photography project competition, (for the series Iwo Jima + 60) 2005 Texas Photographic Society - The Photo Project: An Act of Dedication and Perseverance, (One of four winners of a national juried competition, for the series Iwo Jima + 60) 2005 Nominated for the No Strings Attached Foundation artists merit award 2004 Nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award 2001-2002 The Summerlee Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc. Awarded $45,000 in grants to complete CREW: The Men of the U.S.S. TEXAS, A project to take formal portraits of the former crew of the Battleship TEXAS 1999 Fellowship, The Houston Center for Photography for CREW: The Men of the U.S.S. TEXAS 1998 Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbrough Fund, Awarded Artist Merit Grant 1997 Cultural Arts Council of Houston Harris County through the Lawndale Art Center, awarded travel grant to photodocument Battleship TEXAS Veterans 1986 Pratt Institute, First place, Pratt National Talent Search, awarded full tuition scholarship |
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