2024 Summer Arts Workshops
Registration opens January 22 at 10:00 a.m. PST. We look forward to creating with you in Tahoe!
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Abstracting Landscape with Mixed Media Painting with Melissa Melero-Moose, July 15-19
Engage with the ways landscape can be expressed through different colors, shapes, and textures. Building on these ideas, we will experiment with mixing and layering mediums, creating texture and introducing organic materials to create unique compositions. There will be discussion on the artist’s cultural connection to the land and how it informs her work as well as Indigenous art history of the Great Basin Native Artists. Open to all skill levels
About the artist
Melissa Melero-Moose was born in San Francisco, CA and spent most of her childhood living in Reno, Nevada. She is a Northern Paiute, enrolled with the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe with ties to Fort Bidwell Paiute, California, and southern Oregon. She lives with her family in Hungry Valley, near Reno, Nevada working as a professional artist, curator for the Great Basin Native Artists Gallery and community advisor for the Nevada Museum of Art. Melissa holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Fine Arts from Portland State University, Oregon.
She has received artist fellowships and grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation; Nevada Museum of Art; School for Advanced Research, Southwest Association of Indian Arts, Wheelwright Museum, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her works are a part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC; Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Lilley Museum, University of Nevada; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV and School for Advanced Research (IARC), Santa Fe, NM.
Melissa exhibits her work nationally and internationally and also curates traveling exhibitions for the Great Basin Native Artists. Her influences include imagery found in the Great Basin landscape, petroglyphs, beadwork, and basketry from the Indigenous tribes of Nevada and California.
Melissa Melero-Moose's artist website
Cost: $750 + $50 Material Fee