ABOUT

Michelle Wentling grew up in rural Ohio and currently lives in Salt Lake City, UT. She is an artist and grant writer with a background studying Environmental Humanities. Her practice traces ecological and cultural histories of place through material exploration, craft, and text. Working primarily with processes of weaving, writing, and papermaking, she derives material and meaning from landscapes marked by industrialization and disturbance.

EDUCATION

BA | English: Writing Rhetoric, & Literacy; Minor: Society & Environmental Issues | The Ohio State University | 2018

MA | Environmental Humanities | The University of Utah | 2020

EXHIBITIONS

Without Care | Finch Lane Gallery | Solo Show | June 2026

This River is a Cradle | Canton Museum of Art | Solo Show | April 2025

The Art of Change | Mestizo Institute for Culture and Art | Group Show | November 2024

Surrealism | Utah Museum of Contemporary Art | Group Show | May 2023

Embodied Ecologies | Salt Lake City Public Library | Group Show | October 2022

Embodied Ecologies | Marriott Library | Group Show | November 2022

Say Abortion | Medium Studio | Group Show | May 2022

PROJECTS

Embodied Ecologies Artist Working Group | Art Access Utah | March 2022–October 2022

Movement Building Medicine | March 2021–April 2022

Papermaking the Great Salt Lake | Marriott Library | January 2020–July 2020

AZ West Artist Residency | High Desert Test Sites | November 2023

Shoreline Swell | July 2025–October 2025

PUBLICATIONS

SLUG Magazine, "Embodied Ecologies: Where Disability Meets the Natural World"; mention

15 Bytes, "Art Access Exhibit at Marriott Library is a Lab of Wonders"; mention

Southwest Contemporary, "Environment, Disability, and the Drying of the Great Salt Lake"; mention

Torrey House Press, Voices Rising; contributor

Torrey House Press, Sites & Sightlines; editor & contributor