Melissa Strawser
 
 
 

  EXHIBITIONS

2009 Galerie Wildeshausen, Germany, solo show, Autumn 2009
2008 Goggleworks: Five Printmakers
2006 Casa des Artes, Tavira, Portugal, Print Exhibition, Tavira Print Workshop
2006 LeVacherin, Chiswick - Prints for 5-star Restaurant in London
2006 StrawserBertoiaStrawserBertoia - 'Four Season' - Le (Bear) Fevre - Boyertown, PA
2005 RACC Art Center, Sept. 2005, solo-show -'Frogs and so on, II' (prints)
2005 Galerie Wildeshausen, Germany, solo-show - 'Frogs and so on' (prints)
2004 Evore' International Print Biennial, Portugal (prints), invited artist by Bartolomeu dos Santos
2004 The Solarplate Evolution, Quincy, Illinois (print), invited artist by Dan Welden
2003-2005 Art of the Craft, Reading Museum, PA
2003 William Ris Gallery, Harrisburg, PA
2002-2003 East End Gallery, Appleton, Wisconsin
2002-2006 Many Hands, Palm, PA
2000-2006 Butter Valley Art Exhibition, Palm, PA
2000 Vorpal Gallery, NY
1998-2006 New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA (annual small works show)
1998-2005 Nantucket, MA - Event under the Tent (prints)
1998 Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA - group show 'Generations'
1997 Old Hickory Tannery, Highpoint, N Carolina (prints)
1997 Freyberger Gallery, Reading, PA - Penn State Berks Campus
1994-96 Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, NY
1994 British Festival, New Contemporaries, Taipei, Taiwan

  WORKSHOPS

2007 - Present, Member, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
2000 - Present, Portugal, Tavira Print Workshop, The Algarve.
Private Studio of Bartolomeu dos Santos
2001 & 2004 Exuma, Bahamas.
Created workshop with small children - Patterns in Nature
2003 Sag Harbor, NY.
Visiting Artist, Printaganza w/Dan Welden
1999 France, Boisbuchet/Vitra Design Museum/Pompidou Centre
Collaborative workshop with Val Bertoia - Sound Bodies
Design and Creation of Sound-Rocker
1996 - Present Cambridge, UK/Affiliation...Stanley Jones/Curwen Chilford Prints Ltd.

  PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

2005 Wildeshausen, Germany
2004 YUMA Arts Museum, Exuma, Bahamas/Sculpture for Children
2003 Bob Blackburn's Permanent Collection, Body Print on Canvas, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
2001 London, UK - The Strang Printroom, Permanent Collection, University College London
2000 - Present Tavira Print Workshop, Tavira, Portugal (Bartolomeu dos Santos)
1999 Germany, Weil am Rhein, Vitra Design Museum Sound Rocker by Val Bertoia and Melissa Strawser
1995 London, UK - Christopher Ingold Laboratories, Permanent, University College London, Chemisty Department