Glen Michaels

He moved to New York City and worked for Harper's Magazine but later returned to Spokane where he attended Eastern Washington College of Education and received his B.A.

Michaels spoke of how the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, especially the basalt columns influenced his sculpture.

[5] Both influences found their way into the site specific screen he created for the Frank Lloyd Wright Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House.

[6] Early in his career his work was shown at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York City (October 3–22, 1960 and January 2–20, 1962).

[7] Michaels was featured at the opening night event for the 1968 Museum of Contemporary Crafts exhibition "Objects Are...?[8]".

"The invitation requested that attendees bring with them an object – “larger or smaller than a breadbox, anything from a paper clip to a barn door” – as their ticket to admission.

[10] His work installations include the Bricktown Station (Detroit People Mover), the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the IMF in Washington, D.C. and the Ford Motor Company 1964 New York World's Fair exhibit (now installed in the Henry Ford Centennial Library).

He replied, “Whatever is the most recent is always my favorite.”[15] Michaels was amused when his friend, author Elmore Leonard, used his name as a character in this novel Out of Sight.