Michelle Graves received the Columbia College Chicago Dwight Follett Fellowship for graduate studies in 2009.  She completed her Interdisciplinary Arts and Media MFA in 2012 and has continued her art practice based in Chicago where she is actively involved in the gallery and street art scene.  Graves has exhibited her work nationally/internationally since 1997.  She currently teaches Photoshop and other Adobe software at Columbia College Chicago, The Chicago Portfolio School and North Central College.