Georgia Michalicek has many years of experience working as a photographer and graphic artist, creating informational, training, and marketing designs for corporations, education, and health care clients. While living in Minnesota, she owned a business and produced logo designs, advertising, promotional brochures, audio slide presentations, and video productions, and published and edited a monthly newspaper called People with Children. You would find her with a 35mm Nikon film camera in tow, taking photographs that she developed in a B&W darkroom, or using it to capture the moment in color slides that could convey the desired message in an instant, with an engaging and artistic style.

However, she found herself traveling to the mountains and the West, camping in national parks, and sightseeing along the scenic byways, with her camera by her side at every opportunity until finally, the age of technology was upon us and forever changed her life. Georgia obtained a degree in microcomputers and network support, and moved to Arizona where every weekend called her out into nature, and a new career and long-held passion for landscape photography were able to grow and expand simultaneously.

Georgia Michalicek has lived in northern Arizona for the past 15 years, traveling extensively throughout the state, while finding many more opportunities than she ever dreamed of to get outdoors and focus on her passion as a photographer. She continues to create for a living; only now she works on web sites and audio/visual tutorials viewed on a computer. She uses programs like Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver, and carries a digital Nikon camera with her when hiking in national forests, national and state parks, and the Red Rocks of Sedona where she currently resides with her son.

• Georgia has been chosen by the Herberger Theater Center to participate as a featured artist and will display her photographs for sale at the Phoenix Festival of the Arts on October 1, 2011 in the Herberger Art Gallery.
• Georgia’s photographs have been published in the multimedia Art of Allowing classes held on the internet by Dr. Susan Gregg, and used by Dr. Gregg for promotional purposes.
• Her photograph taken in Hawaii, called Journey the Path, was published in Mystica and the Magical Labyrinth Shell, a book used for self-healing by Dr. Kayla Gayle.
• She won third place for her photograph titled, Water Colors, in the Keep Sedona Beautiful, Capture the Wonder photo contest in the amateur division in 2007, and was honored for that award at the KSB Capture the Wonder Photo Exhibition & Retrospective held at the Sedona Arts Center in June 2010.