Chelsea Lake Roberts

Artist Statement

Chelsea Roberts is a Michigan artist whose handmade, abstract collages and found poetry explore the construction of meaning in an image-saturated world.

Through mining ephemera like old journalism, print ads, found or kept letters, discarded job applications, expired polaroid film, and many other things that most people would put in the trash, her sourcing process is inspired by the Found Art movement. But she sees these materials as gifts, rather than discoveries.

Chelsea originally trained to become a theatre historian, earning her MA and publishing original research before deciding to leave academia for a job in sales and marketing. She currently works as the Director of Brand & Design for a leading Michigan public affairs firm.

While Chelsea’s earlier artistic work explored consumerism and satire through juxtaposition, her current practice is focused on abstraction, Buddhist ideology and creating larger scale works.

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Education

MA Theatre, Central Washington University 2015
BA Theatre, Michigan State University 2012

Exhibitions, Performance, and WorksHOPS

“COLLAGE: THE GAME!”
Workshop Facilitator
Break It Down/Make It Better
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Feb 28, 2025

Music: Op. 1 No.4
Juried group show
The Arts Council of White Lake-Nuveen Center
Whitehall, Michigan
June 14 – July 20, 2024

Ode to Mother Earth
Juried group show
The Grosse Pointe Artists Association
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
June 13 thru July 26, 2024

The LGBTQ+ Artist in Michigan
Juried group show
The Lansing Art Gallery
Lansing, Michigan
May 1 – Jun 29th, 2024

the masters – 10-minute play
Writer and performer
Fringe Month at The Pocket Theatre
Seattle, Washington
October 1-31st, 2016

Central Washington University Student Art Show
Gallery One Visual Arts Center
Ellensburg, Washington
September 1-30, 2015

Put On: Wearing Gender
Full-length solo performance art
Scene Metrospace
East Lansing, Michigan
April 26th, 2012

I Keep Everything You’ve Made Me Because I Love You
Solo show, collage and mixed media
Basement 414
Lansing, Michigan
June 1-30, 2010

Publications

A Love Supreme
Belt Magazine
Jun 2023
Link to article: A Love Supreme – Belt Magazine

Arts & Culture Journalism
Lansing City Pulse
Jun 2022-Present
Link to 50+ articles: Articles by Chelsea Lake Roberts

Left of New Left: The Living Theatre’s Anarchism 
Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Michigan State University Press (2020) 14 (1): 101–120.
Link to article: Left of New Left

LinkedIn Resume

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