Michelle Zurek To All Instructors

Michelle is an artist/photographer and a mama to one amazing human & several sweet fur babies. After 16 years spent smitten with Los Angeles, she is back in her hometown of Virginia Beach. She has over 20 years of experience as a working artist. After a long successful career as a fine art photographer she is now shifting her focus to exploring her other love, painting. 

She has years of experience working with kids in a volunteer capacity having been heavily involved in her son’s elementary schools in CA and in VA, serving as a Garden Committee Co-Chair, Oyster Reef & Knee Deep in the Chesapeake Co-chair, event illustrator, PTA Board member and more. She also has spent the last year as a substitute teacher for VBCPS filling in as Art Teacher, Library Assistant and Kinder TA for her son’s elementary school. And most recently was honored to be the Artist-in-Residence at Kingston Elementary school.

Michelle has a B.A. in Studio Arts from ODU. Her work can be found in private collections around the world and as set decor on several TV shows such as ABC’s Modern Family and The Rookie, in Lana Del Rey's album Ultraviolence, published in books, and in national and international magazines such as HGTV and ELLE Girl Korea, as wall decor in hotels around the country and has been sold through retailers such as Urban Outfitters, West Elm and Target. 

Working with kids has always been her dream. She is excited to join HSOBX.

Current Classes
Exploring Art & The Natural World (6-8) – (open)
Exploring Art & The Natural World (9-11) – (open)