Melissa Harshman received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1992. She has taught in the Printmaking and Book Arts Department at the Lamar Dodd School of Art since 1993. Harshman has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. Recent honors include the Dedicato a Cortona Award in from the University of Georgia, a Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship, and a Senior Faculty Research Grant titled “Explorations in Papermaking”. She presented a paper at the Impact International Printmaking Conference in Spain in 2018 and at the SECAC Conference in 2019.