Melissa Resch

Education
• University of Tasmania, MCA, painting
• Massachusetts College of Art & Design, BFA, painting
• Taylor University, BS, education

Experience
• Guest Instructor, Door County Textile Collective, Sturgeon Bay, WI
• Guest Instructor, Articipation, Sturgeon Bay, WI
• Visiting Artist, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, IN
• Artist in Residence, Flax Mill Museum, Boyup Brook, Western Australia
• Artist in Residence, Pioneers Historic Museum, Boyup Brook
• Academic Liaison, National Women’s Caucus for Art, Boston, MA
• Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

Awards
• Bonnie Hartmann Award for Outstanding Creativity
• Graduation with Highest Distinction, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
• Graduation with Painting Departmental Honors, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
• Pearl Paint/Foundation Auction Award
• Presidential Mentor Program
• Mohan-Dow Merit Scholar Award

Juried & Invitational Exhibitions
• 2019 Collection Invitational, The Hardy Art Gallery, Ephraim, WI
• 2024, 2021, 2019, 2018 Annual Juried Exhibition, The Hardy Art Gallery, Ephraim, WI
• 2019, 2018, 2017 Annual Juried Exhibition, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
• 2018 Our Water Stories, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
• 2006 River’s Edge Grand Opening, Tasmania, Australia
• 2005 Provincetown Artists, Provincetown, MA
• 2004 Illustrating the Sea with a View, AJ Japour Gallery, Miami, FL
• 2003 Art with a View I - Gala Opening, AJ Japour Gallery, Miami, FL
• 2003 Gala Opening, Dwellingup Gallery, Dwellingup, Western Australia
• 2002 Cape Cod Oils, Provincetown, MA
• 2001 Thalia Mara’s 90th Birthday Exhibition, Jackson, MI
• 2000 Hallowed Grounds, Boston, MA

Solo Exhibitions
• 2019 Door County, Abstracted, Fish Creek, WI
• 2016 A Homecoming, Lafayette, IN
• 2015 Landscapes from up North, Sebring, FL
• 2014 Textiles and Oils, Provincetown, MA
• 2012 Flora: The Heroes of Beauty, Provincetown, MA
• 2011 In the Harbor, 53rd at Third, Manhattan, NY
• 2010 Provincetown: Light, Land, Sea, Cambridge, MA
• 2008 Inspired by a Tasmanian Gasometer, Provincetown, MA
• 2007 Iconometer, Tasmania, Australia
• 2006 Colour En Masse, Bridgetown, Western Australia
• 2004 Spoken For, Dwellingup, Western Australia
• 2004 Cape Oils, Provincetown, MA
• 2004 Altered States, Provincetown, MA
• 2003 October Sketchbooks, Provincetown, MA