November 6, 2016
I celebrated this year’s equinox installing Here Stands, with friend and collaborator Holly Wren Spaulding. Throughout the long days of walking and hanging abaca fiber paper […]
August 21, 2016
MCLA GALLERY 51 TO EXTEND ‘WAYFINDING: A solo show by Melanie Mowinski NORTH ADAMS, MASS. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will extend the exhibition of Melanie […]
June 26, 2016
My exhibition Wayfinding opens at MCLA’s Gallery 51 in a smidgen over a month from today. (July 28, 2016) There are about a half-dozen in progress pieces/artist […]
May 27, 2016
I made a tree rubbing yesterday, one of the firsts in a very long time. It’s a rubbing of the word love inscribed into a tree along […]
May 9, 2016
I spent a good part of the past four weeks at an artist residency in Nebraska City, right on the Missouri river across from Iowa. The […]
April 28, 2016
Seven years ago I arrived in Nebraska City in August for an artist residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. I wanted to […]
March 27, 2016
My time in Venice was ridiculously generative. I embodied the cliche inspiration flowing through me like a turned-on faucet towards the end of my stay. A faucet […]
March 12, 2016
Three weeks ago I boarded the Alilaguna to the airport and said goodbye to Venice. A lifetime seems to have passed in that short time as […]
February 8, 2016
When you arrive in Venice or Denali National Park in Alaska, it’s a “Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore,” kind of a moment. Everything you know […]
January 28, 2016
I have a really great sense of direction and an understanding of where I am in space. I often think about my location from an aerial perspective, […]
January 20, 2016
As part of my residency at the Scuola, I am honored with a solo show in their gallery. I thought it would be towards the end […]
January 8, 2016
I am in Venice. I arrived yesterday, after spending a couple of great days with my sister, her husband and my favorite nieces and one of […]
January 1, 2016
Ah, here it is, the start of a new year. I am grateful to say goodbye to 2015, and delighted to welcome the opportunities of 2016. One […]
December 25, 2015
When I am able to celebrate Christmas with my parents, which I am this year, it also means I become an honorary member of their choir […]
December 24, 2015
Today’s words come from Thomas Merton’s essay, “The Time of No Room” from 1965. It’s included in his books Raids on the Unspeakable, as well as A […]
December 23, 2015
Today’s collage if examined closely, contains numerous layers: papers that initially created cohesiveness, but after further consideration really did not. When that happens, I whip out […]