Melissa Weiss
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Education: BFA, 2010, Pomona College, Claremont, CA; MFA, 2018, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Concurrent Position: Art Director, Verso Books. Curation: Lost&: An Archive of Future Artifacts. Exhibitions: Reading Room Gallery, Providence; RISD Museum, Providence. Publications: Surfaces of Protest, Full Bleed: A Journal of Art & Design.
Personal Statement
Melissa Weiss is an artist, designer, and writer with research interests in feminist theory, ecology, critical optimism, and the archive.
She received a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Pomona College. She is currently a Visiting Designer in Visual Communication Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an art director for the radical publishing house, Verso Books.
In her ongoing project, Monument for Feeling, Melissa explores her relationship to her family’s past through the lens of a defiant archivist.