Michael Eble was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a BFA degree in painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a MFA degree in painting and drawing from the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Art and HFA Gallery Curator at the University of Minnesota at Morris since the fall of 2003. Over the past years he has shown his paintings, drawings, and prints in numerous regional and national exhibitions. Eble was a recent recipient of a Residential Fellowship from the Institute for Advance Study at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has also received grants through the McKnight Foundation, Lake Region Arts Council, Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, and has received travel and research awards, from the University of Mississippi and the University of Minnesota. His most recent body of work, Endangered Lands address the growing problem of coastal erosion in the southern Louisiana