Professor Melissa Harshman Featured in Printmaking Exhibition at Berry College

Professor Melissa Harshman is part of a printmaking exhibition at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. Harshman is among 7 artists invited to participate in Impress(i)on: A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking at the Moon Gallery at Berry College. The show also includes Dodd alum Stephanie Smith, MFA Printmaking (1996). The exhibition is on view from February 4 – 28, 2019.

The exhibition surveys a range of traditional printmaking methods—relief, etching, lithography, silkscreen—while also expanding into photographic and digital technologies or hybrid combinations. Impress(i)on also highlights different uses of print media including animation, artist’s books, installation, and sculpture.

Melissa Harshman received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1992. She has taught in the Printmaking and Book Arts area at the Lamar Dodd School of Art since 1993. Harshman has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. Recent exhibitions include Madison Mafia at Georgia State University, a solo exhibition at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy, as well as at Swoope Editions in Maitland, Florida. Harshman completed an artist residency at the Penland School of Crafts in January of 2017. She was honored with the Dedicato a Cortona Award in April of 2017 from the University of Georgia, as well as a Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship, which allowed her to return to Penland in January of 2018. She attended the 2019 Penland Winter Residency as well.