Melissa Harshman received her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1992. She has taught in the Printmaking and Book Arts Department at the Lamar Dodd School of Art since 1993. Harshman has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. Recent exhibitions include “Madison Mafia” at Georgia State University, a solo exhibition at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy as well as at Swoope Editions in Maitland, Florida. Harshman completed an artist residency at the Penland School of Crafts in January of 2017. She was honored with the Dedicato a Cortona Award in April of 2017 from the University of Georgia as well as a Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship.
Discipline:
Visual Art
Melissa Harshman
Studios
Putnam
Melissa Harshman worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…