ABOUT:
Melissa Webb is a nationally exhibiting fiber artist, educator, and independent curator working in the areas of site-specific installation,video, performance, and photography. She holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Over her 30+ -year career, Melissa has presented her work at numerous arts institutions, galleries, and festivals such as the BravinLee Project's The Golden Thread in Seaport, NYC, Spring Break NYC, The Cranbrook Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Shepherd Detroit, Kishka Gallery NJ, CAMP Gallery Miami, Ann Arbor Art Center, School 33 Art Center, Vis-Arts Rockville, the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) Baltimore, Maryland Art Place, and with the Detroit Month of Design,Transmodern, and Artscape Festivals.


Melissa maintains a practice of mounting immersive, site-responsive installation works in historically significant architectural spaces. Ambitious in scale as well as detail, her work has engaged diverse audiences in places such as the Former Lee Paper Mill in Vicksburg, MI, the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House, the Stanford White-designed Lovely Lane United Methodist Church in Baltimore, and Clermont Farm, a former 1755 slave plantation owned by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. She has been the recipient of a Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award, a Robert Rauschenberg Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant, a Cranbrook Academy of Art Director’s Fellowship, a Baker Foundation project grant, and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Sculpture.

Melissa is from Baltimore, Maryland, and currently resides in Metro Detroit, Michigan