My Story.

Marie Mellott

Pastel and colored pencil drawings, mixed media drawings for projection theatre, choreography for performance of poetry, Involvement in performance art, and poetry readings.

Education

B.F.A. in Graphic Art from University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Media

Pastel and colored pencil drawings and mixed media, performance art, photography, computerized images for theatre, creative writing for multimedia and performance.

Collaborations

20 performances of collaborations over the last 15 years with some performed in other states and in Germany.
Solo cellist Madeleine Shapiro received a grant from the Minnesota Composers Forum to tour nationally in 1996 with my projection theater piece "I can't fathom it."

1996-2000 25 collaborations at Universities in Milwaukee, Urbana-Champaign, Minneapolis, Minn, Miami, Florida, Stuttgart and Hamburg, Germany

Group Shows

• 2009-2014 The Fine Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
• 2008 Group show of Six Artist at The Gallery on the Lake, Milwaukee, WI
• 2006 Group Show in Leipsig, Germany
• 1996 WET Women Silent Witness Exhibit (projection piece, performance art and painting
• 1995 Blatz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
• 1993 WET Women, Portrait of the artist as a woman, Metropolitan Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
• 1988 The Parade of Homes, Pewaukee, WI
• 1987 The Wright Experiment, Wright Street Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
• 1987 WPCA Chair Show, Walker's Point Center for the Arts.

Solo Shows

11 solo shows of my drawings in America and a few in Germany

Juried Shows

40 juried shows over the last 20 years

Interviews

1993 Romanian National Radio, Bucharest, Romania
1997 MSOE Milwaukee radio station, by Hal Rammel

Panel Discussions

Included in several panel discussions about collaborations and women in the arts

Presenter

The Main presenter at the women in management (WIM) meeting at Elgin, IL in 1994

Group Shows

20 group shows over the last 25 years.

Solo Shows

11 solo shows of my drawings in America and a few in Germany

Juried Shows

40 juried shows over the last 20 years

Interviews

1993 Romanian National Radio, Bucharest, Romania
1997 MSOE Milwaukee radio station, by Hal Rammel

Panel Discussions

Included in several panel discussions about collaborations and women in the arts

Presenter

The Main presenter at the women in management (WIM) meeting at Elgin, IL in 1994

Professional Memberships

• Wisconsin Visual Artists, lifetime membership
• Wisconsin Women in the Arts
• Walker's Point Center for the Arts
• Arts for Aids Project, 1995
• Represented by Gallery218MKE

Artist Statement

When I moved back to Milwaukee from Kentucky, I was looking up people I had known in the past. Judith Hooks, manager of Gallery 218, was one of them. After we got together a few times she asked me if I had any abstract drawings. I showed her some and she liked them. So through friendship I found a wonderful opportunity at Gallery 218 in the Marshall Building, Third Ward, Milwaukee, WI. Now I have been with them since 2022 showing art alongside Bernie Newman, Carole Glass, Judith Hooks, Janhke and Ellen Raines.

2006 grant to work in Kaditzch, Germany

In the late summer of 2006 I stayed as a guest for two months at Denkmalschmiede Hofgen Foundation in Kaditzch, Germany, located in the former eastern (communist) part of Germany.

While there I created six small colored pencil drawings of the Mandrake plant and the superstitions around it, especially about German superstitions. Also, I worked on a projection piece on the computer, called, "Only Gestures" . It was about my husband who had recently survived stomach cancer and could not speak for a few months. This piece can be found on Youtube under his name, Yehuda Yannay.