Michelle Scarlett, who lives in Baileyville, Maine, is a Down East papermaker whose practice uses sketchbooks and journals to create in the mediums of papermaking, printmaking, and book arts.  Michelle is a University of Maine at Machias Alumni. In 2004, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Degree with a concentration in Visual Arts. In 2022, Michelle returned to UMM to earn the Certificate in Book Arts within the Creative Arts Program.    In her current work, Michelle is exploring traditional and contemporary papermaking processes and how paper structures can create interplays with movement, color and texture.