As Manager for the Arts Market of New Orleans since June 2007, Michelle Levine utilizes all her creative skills planning this monthly event featuring local artists, live music, and creative crafts for children. In addition to energetically promoting the Arts Market, Ms. Levine arranges the selection of new artistic talent, children’s entertainment, local musical groups, food vendors, and volunteers. She also designs and organizes art projects for the Kids Tent. Prior to her arrival at the Arts Council, Ms. Levine enjoyed a well publicized career in the production, decorative, and fine arts creating murals as a self-employed artist for theater, film, commercial, and residential projects in New Orleans, New York, and Europe. She’s been creating art since elementary school attending P.S. 197- a magnet school for the creative arts. For five years she studied painting, drawing, and sculpture at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Ms. Levine holds a B.A. in communications from the University of New Orleans. She has lived in the New Orleans area since 1983.
