A lifelong Chicagoan, Michele was inspired by art, architecture and design from an early age. Michele had the intention of becoming a fashion designer and attended Parson School of Design in NYC, but it was there she decided to become a metal-smith, jeweler. When returning to Chicago she learned the business of the Contemporary American Craft Marketplace. She apprenticed for a local goldsmith and worked as a buyer and manager of a well known and respected gallery.

Her first bodies of jewelry were sterling and then mixed metals, utilizing marriage of metals with some cold connections and kinetic elements. Her desire to incorporate color into her jewelry took awhile to develop as she wanted to work with an alternative material, which ended up being wool felt. Michele has been a full time, self employed jewelry artist for 27 years mostly exhibiting her wool felt and sterling silver jewelry at art fairs, craft shows and knitting conferences across the US with an occasional gallery and online show in the mix. Michele resides and works in Chicago with her husband and two cats.