Education
M.A. in Art Education - University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
B.F.A. in Painting - University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
Work History
2008 · Art Instructor, Summer Intensive — Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
2007 · Portfolio Review Panelist — San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
2006–2007 · Gallery Director — MichaelAngelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2005–2006 · Visiting Artist — Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
2002–2008 · Oil Painting & Pastel Instructor — Art League of Santa Cruz County
2002 · Artist in Residence — Artistically Talented Program, Santa Cruz County Schools
1996–1998 · Graduate Instructor — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1995 · Art Instructor — Parkland College, Champaign, IL
1994 · Painting Instructor — University of Illinois Continuing Education
Honors
2006 · Semifinalist, The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition — National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 · New Figurative Abstractions — San Jose, CA
2009 · Blurring the Lines — Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
2004 · Monterey Bay Portraits — Sassoontsi Gallery, Salinas, CA
2002 · Madonna, Feminist, Whore — MichaelAngelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
TWO- & THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 · Two-Person Exhibition — R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2006 · Three-Person Exhibition — Pacific Grove Cultural Center, Pacific Grove, CA
2001 · Embodied Feminists Portraits — Galería Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA
JURIED & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 · Juried Exhibition — Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
2021 · Juried Exhibition — Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2019 · A Figurative Affair — R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2018 · See, Be Seen — Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
2013 · Drawing Invitational, The Drawing Salon — Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UC Santa Cruz
2013 · A Figurative Affair — R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2011 · Faces and Figures, Juried — Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
2009 · Cabrillo Arts Group Exhibit — Pajaro Valley Arts Gallery
2009 · Group Figurative Show — Santa Cruz County Bank
2005 · The Many Faces of the Figure, Juried — MichaelAngelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2002 · The Body Positive — Santa Cruz AIDS Project
2002 · American Art Gallery — Carmel, CA
2001 · Feeding Ourselves, Feeding Others: Women and Food — Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
2001–2009 · Open Studios — Santa Cruz County
1998 · Women's Art Exhibition, Illini Union Board — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1995 · 16th Biennial Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition — Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst, IL
1995 · 16th Annual Paper in Particular — Columbia College, Columbia, MO
1993 · Two-Person Show — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1992 · Illini Union Juried Painting Competition — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1991 · Woman's Art Show 1, McKinley Foundation — University of Illinois
John Seed, "Santa Cruz's Michele Giulvezan-Tanner Unveils Abstract Collection at R. Blitzer Gallery," Lookout Santa Cruz, May 29, 2024
Leaping Clear: Magazine of Art, Literature & Contemplation, Spring 2020
Kara Guzman, "Bubbling Up," Good Times, January 27, 2016 (feature on the Wrigley Building; artist profile)
Christa Martin, "Blurring the Lines," The Good Times, March 15, 2009
Rose Surnow, "Home Is Where the Art Is," Metro Santa Cruz, April 2005, p. 28
Christa Martin, "MichaelAngelo's Female Artists Muse About Open Studios," The Good Times, October 2004
"Powerful Portrait Artist to Exhibit" (review), Monterey Wine & Travel, Winter 2003–2004, p. 31
Greg Wiley, "Madonna, Feminist, Whore," The Good Times, August 2001, pp. 35–36