About Melissa Macalpin News

Education Download Resume

1999-2001

University of the Arts - Philadelphia, PA Master of Fine Arts in Book Arts/Printmaking, Faculty Award Recipient 2001

1994-1998

Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts - New Brunswick, NJ Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture

Exhibition Record

Metamorphosis: Contemporary Forms in Book Arts, Bucks County College, Newtown, PA, 2001
LIFEbeat Art Auction, The Puck Building, New York, New York 1001, 2002
All Small exhibit, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2002
Felician College Faculty Exhibition, Felician College, Lodi, NJ. 2004
Animation Block Party, BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn, 2005
Felician College Faculty Exhibition, Felician College, Lodi, NJ. 2005
The Independent Film and Video Showcase, The Greek Cultural Center, Astoria, Queens
Human Pixel Project, Three Columns, Master House, Harvard University Cambridge MA, 2006
Felician College Faculty Exhibition, Felician College, Lodi, NJ. 2006
Book Art, Penn State University, Abington, PA, 2006
Felician College Faculty Exhibition, Felician College, Lodi, NJ. 2007
Pumping Kill Mud Down the Drill Pipe - Broadside Battle, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA, 2007
CORPOREAL- Book as Body, Body as Book, John Cotton Dana Library, Newark NJ 2007
WWIII, Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, NJ, 2008
Felician College Faculty Exhibition, Felician College, Lodi, NJ. 2008
_gaia, Neumann Leather Building, Hoboken, NJ. 2008
RESISTANCE!, John Cotton Dana Library, Newark, NJ 2008
$$$, ABC No Rio, New York, NY 2009
2191 Days and Counting, Powerhouse Arena, New York ,NY 2009

Small-press Publications
Mrs.Miller, How I became beautiful; Action Girl, Issue 11, Slave Labor Graphics,1997
I have trouble remembering her; Action Girl, Issue 18, Slave Labor Graphics,1998
Tuesday Kissing; Heidelberg KORS one-color press, Ace Press 2001
broken heart, broken head(band); Heidelberg KORS one-color press, Ace Press 2001
my blue bird of happiness; Heidelberg KORS one-color press, Ace Press 2001
driving home; laser print, Ace Press 2002
the library; inkjet, Ace Press, 2006 Night Sky in July; When lips Press, 2007
phone call, LaserJet; When lips Press, 2007
this is how we walk on the moon, inkjet; When lips Press, 2008
oh, you’re married, inkjet; When lips Press, 2008

Collections
Visual Arts Library, SVA, New York, New York
driving home; laser print, Ace Press 2002
Special Collections Library, Penn State University, Abington, PA
the library; inkjet, Ace Press, 2006
Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey
the library; inkjet, Ace Press, 2006
this is how we walk on the moon; inkjet, when lips press, 2008
oh, your married, inkjet; when lips press, 2008

Work represented in private national and international collections

Commissions
Meredith Zeitlin, June 2007
Joe Rudge,
December 2008

Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Felician College, Lodi, NJ. Fall 2004 – Present
Coordinator of the Graphic Design Program, Felician College, Lodi, NJ. Spring 2005 – Spring 2008
Courses taught: Art for Non-Majors, Introduction to Graphic Design, Two Dimensional Design,
Computer Graphics: Image, Computer Graphics: Type, Computer Graphics: Layout, Senior Seminar I and Senior Seminar II.