Michael Reid is a freelance artist, muralist, tattoo artist, gardener, and handyman. Reid works with high school students at the Brightmoor Makerspace. At the makerspace he teaches bike mechanics, woodworking and building. Reid also teaches art & mural painting through Community Arts Partnership (CCS)

Reid’s interest in the arts began when he was a teenager with skateboarding and photography. Reid studied painting and electronic media at Wayne State University. While attending college he lived in a community with other artists, sculptors, musicians, and outsiders, but in 2012 he moved to Brightmoor and in 2013 bought a house and some land to garden and create something beautiful and functional.