Michelle Kloehn holds a B.F.A. in photography from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and an M.F.A. in photography from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. Early in her career she interned at Sherman Fairchild Photograph Conservation Laboratory at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the private studio of Jose Orraca. She has participated in numerous Ander W. Mellon funded workshops in photograph conservation and preservation and continues to show her fine art work throughout the country. Kloehn is a 2011 Baum Award nominee for Emerging American Photographers and the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships. She has been the West Coast representative for The Better Image, an organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of fine art and photographs, in the Bay Area since 2005.
Michelle Kloehn
Studios
Nef
Michelle Kloehn worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…