MICHELE SHELOR
Michele A. Shelor fASLA
Principal
Michele is a landscape architect with experience working on projects ranging from small intimate courtyards to large urban spaces. She has extensive knowledge of native plant palettes, green roofs/over-structure gardens and hardscape designs that work within the site’s existing context, whether natural or built. Michele believes in collaborating with clients, artists and other disciplines to provide the best possible design solutions. Using simple and clean forms that exhibit distinctive qualities such as tactility, luminescence, texture and pattern, she creates narratives in the landscape, moments of stillness and passages of continuity that suggest an elevated awareness of the individual in space.
Professional Registrations
Arizona
Nevada
New Mexico
Idaho
Utah
Affiliations
American Society of Landscape Architects
Arizona Forward
Professional Experience
Colwell Shelor Landscape Architecture 2009-present
Education
Arizona State University College of Design Bachelor of Science- Landscape Architecture, 2001
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts & Sciences- Bachelor of Arts History/Political Science, 1994
Speaking and juries
Changing Perceptions: Garden Design in Light of Shifting Climates and Community Priorities, National ASLA Conference, 2023
Light + Water + Storytelling, The Garden Club of America National Conference, 2023
Inside the Studio of Colwell Shelor Landscape Architecture, SHADE Conference, September 2022
33.4484° N, 112.0740° W Light + Water + Storytelling, University of Arkansas & Architecture and Design Network, February 2022
WxLA Instagram Live Tour, Orange Mall Green Infrastructure, March 2022
Phoenix Forum, March 2017
Cultural Districts from Coast to Coast, National APA Conference, April 2016
The Water Scare: What Is Real? The Morrison Institute for Public Policy, November 2015
Women in Landscape Architecture, ASLA National Conference, October 2012
Desert Lifestyles: The Private Gardens of Paradise Valley, ASLA National Conference, September 2012
Formulating Design, AIA Phoenix Metro Chapter, November 2011
The Shifting Living Landscape, Arizona State University- Landscape Architecture, 2010, 2011, 2014 & 2015
Green Roofs in a Desert Environment, Green Summit, September 2008
Teaching Experience
Verna C. Garvan Distinguished Visitors in Landscape Architecture, University of Arkansas 2022
