Mikel Bresee

Director- Community Arts Partnership

Panelist - 2:15pm, Thursday, April 7th – Just Cities: Creating Equitable Enviornments for Everyone.

Mikel Bresee has served as the founding Director of the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) office of the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit since Jan. 2001, and is also the Founding Director of community+public arts: DETROIT, a program out of the CAP office to bring community-based public art to Detroit neighborhoods.  Mikel’s work in Detroit was acknowledged in 2007 when he was selected one of three finalists for the Michigan Governor’s Award in Art and Culture in the Art Education category.

 Before coming to Michigan, Mikel worked as an artist, educator, and community arts organizer in the (then) emerging field of Community Arts in Chicago.  A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fine Art, his personal art workwork has been exhibited in New York , Chicago, Detroit and Santa Fe.  As a teaching artist, Mikel was an Illinois Arts Council, Arts in Education roster artist, and has presented to the National, Illinois, and Michigan Art Education Associations.  As a public artist, Mikel has executed projects for CCS; The Field Musuem, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planitarium, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; among many others.  Mikel’s public and community art work was documented by The Chicago Historical Society in 1996 as part of the “Neighborhoods: Keepers of Culture” exhibition series.