Michael Borders is a muralist, illustrator, and formal portrait painter. Borders was born in Hartford, CT, and currently lives in Bloomfield, CT. He earned his MFA from Howard University (Washington, DC), and has lectured at Fisk University (TN), Trinity College (Hartford, CT), and the University of Hartford (West Hartford, CT). He has received numerous commissions for his works, as well as participated in many exhibitions, at locations such as Fisk University (TN), the Museum of American Political Life at the University of Hartford (West Hartford, CT), and the Connecticut State Museum at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT).

The Connecticut Artists Collection includes giclée prints of Borders' Connecticut Industry Mural is a touring 10-foot by 40-foot painting on canvas of: 1) the people who impacted Connecticut's industrial history, 2) the land where industrial history took place, 3) the machinery of manufacture, and 4) the products of manufacture in Connecticut. The mural pictorializes the way these four elements interfaced over roughly 350 years. Everything is positioned chronologically and geographically by county. It is a reflection of Connecticut's industrial experience from 1634 through contemporary times, a documentary mural. Discovering that history and reflecting it in a stimulating, historically-accurate, and aesthetically-pleasing way was the requirement.