Melissa Webb is an interdisciplinary visual artist, curator, and educator. She holds an MFA in Fiber at Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Fiber from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her recent work has been presented at venues such as the Spring Break Art Show NYC, Bravin Lee Project’s The Golden Thread, The Shepherd in Detroit, Cranbrook Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, CAMP Gallery Miami, Ann Arbor Art Center, The Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Michigan State University Union Gallery, and at the University of Michigan Stamelos Gallery. Melissa maintains a practice of mounting immersive, site-responsive installation works in historically significant architectural spaces such as an 18th-century mercantile building at the historic Seaport waterfront in Manhattan, the former Lee Paper Mill in Vicksburg, MI, the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House in Bloomfield Hills, MI, Lovely Lane United Methodist Church in Baltimore, MD, and at Clermont Farm, a former 1755 plantation owned by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources in Berryville, VA. Awards include an Artprize Grand Rapids Juried Installation Award, A Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award, a Cranbrook Academy of Art Director’s Fellowship, a Robert Rauschenberg Artistic Innovation & Collaboration Grant, and a Maryland State Arts Council Award for Sculpture.