Michelle Vezina Peterlin has been a professional artist for over 30 years.  She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she studied painting.

She is a Rhode Island Art League elected artist.  Michelle is also a member of the National Oil & Acrylic Painter Society.

She is an adjunct painter professor in the Continued Learning Department at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.

Michelle is the Visual Arts Director for the New Harmony Artists' Guild (NHAG) in New Harmony, Indiana.  She is also a NHAG Board of Directors member.

Peterlin has shown her work juried exhibits throughout the United States for 3 decades.  In 2021, her work has been written about in PR Newswire and World 360 News.  Her work was published in Artistastonish Magazine in 2022.