https://www.greencommunitycreative.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2019-01-16 https://www.greencommunitycreative.com/community-projects daily 0.75 2019-01-16 https://www.greencommunitycreative.com/work daily 0.75 2013-08-30 https://www.greencommunitycreative.com/work-1 daily 1.0 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548703666367-LRSR5N3ZQJQ3BCM4SDGF/portrait_glitter_student_blue.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548904505872-EK63LHJMOD8UGH2YWBTW/glitter_portrait_mg.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549304307988-LDR0Z67GT976EIB7CPOM/IMG_7884.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549304312665-YDQOE5J30M5BX0T5RQVV/glitter_portrait_brother.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549304320641-KZO6UXUQ5XUYNZQCQCNL/samsitar+copy.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549304485691-KU24ZY1LFL3VJXDS41TR/glitter_portrait_blacklivesmatter.jpeg Work - Expanding the Project During the second year of the project, we switched the format to engage community members who might not otherwise meet. We took photos of the participants across the city, but instead of creating self-portraits, we exchanged the photographs with a stranger. Each participant wrote a little bit about themselves on the back of their photo to further the connection. Both exhibitions went on display in the Corcoran Gallery of Art and an exhibition opening was held in celebration of the community of artists. Many participants not only saw their portrait for the first time but also had a chance to meet the artist of their portrait at the opening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549304209822-BN4PLGQ6G51DVJC5L8G2/glitter_pano_exhibition.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548703614253-DV45FVRNOXHSP5BSU16G/glitter_portrait_artreach_student_malik.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548703662931-O3RFU3C0EWPKND0PRYM2/glitter_portrait_student_green.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957305261-LIWULXBPT8ZH6EAWFJPS/glitter_portrait_capture.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957295013-G6BRUGL3PDKW62X8JJ5S/glitter_portrait_corcoran_exhibition_self.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957294920-S0C2TWZ9C720C4XVH0VH/glitter_portrait_group_detail.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957299810-GBTUA9UN5NYAH0VYI8RF/glitter_portraits_exhibition_student_blur.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957301288-VXFY70BQF3S6HIJCSVN1/rob.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957304901-15REXW7OX5UT6RF98OEM/glitter_portrait_exhibition_point.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957539342-PONIAG1WDCUO8MZ1ECUC/glitter_portrait_gallery_pictures.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957299785-JWGDK0FEJSGHUFKTAHYC/glitter_portraits_corcoran_staff_students.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957551910-VKRJY5TEOUJMMPL5PIIL/glitter_portrait_thearc_yearone.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564957304573-YFL3VD1NYLBQPOTIM4UY/podium_exhibition_melissa.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549304421224-4NLEOQUY5V20GP7Q5G6O/glitter_portrait_cellphone.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548904478945-DT5ZIXWAPQZQIFLFX61A/glitter_portrait_artreach_student.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548703548029-NN695JSZO3SIVJC7D88P/glitter_portrait_flyer.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548811623944-02P5GFIPWBERHGOENOAD/exhibition_portrait_invite.jpg Work - Community Portrait Project A large-scale multimedia project celebrating eight remarkable people from Washington, D.C.’s Ward 7 and 8 through the lens of ArtReach students (ages 8-18), George Washington University’s photojournalism + new media graduate students and Corcoran College of Art + Design Alumni artists. The artwork uniquely examines these individual’s stories and explores the passion, energy and commitment found east of the river in our nation’s capital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812324804-G4L2HKRSH65NW9UM7S2V/portrait_gallery_exhibition_family.jpeg Work - Community Portrait Exhibition Nearing the end of the project, the portraits were collected and put on display in the ArtReach gallery. At the opening, family and community members celebrated alongside the artists. The project participants were particularly excited for the event and unveiling because it was the first time the community influencers would see the portraits and the first opportunity for all artists to meet face-to-face. The opening celebration was, in itself, an inclusive and transformative experience with incredible community excitement and participation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1553554291864-SR4HCNZL2673ZTUS52J0/exhibition_gallery_portrait.png Work - Reflection - Building Collective Efficacy Through Asset-Based Programming The holistic project hosted opportunities to weave a fabric of the community through multiple levels of participation. Each person brought energy, curiosity and competencies to the art project, permitting it to evolve and grow. Each participant shared a profound and enriching experience through connection, collective pride, and interaction. The community based art education experience showcased citizens who have accomplished great things, and also helped students and the community at large understand that great things are possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549337642820-W4P7S7U6X33KA1IUAN19/portrait_project_photoshoot.png Work - Civic Engagement and Social Connectedness The broad purpose of the project was to introduce and connect community members, raise public awareness and social consciousness of local identity, uplift community’s self-image, nourish and enrich social capital, explore a variety of creative disciplines, share intergenerational stories and celebrate active and engaged citizenship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1553547867190-3JBFIWJ791A2XL3CDIJ1/portrait_amber_wsg.jpg Work - Three stages of collaboration The portrait project began with listening. During the first phase, each community influencer was interviewed and photographed in an environment congruent to their passion. With a background of information, students participated in group discussions and brainstorming mixed media collaborative portrait making materials. At each meeting, the community influencers participated in a photo shoot where the volunteer photojournalism students photographed the portrait sitters in action. During the interview, the influencers shared their thoughts and experiences as a youth and as an adult in the community. They each articulated the challenges facing their community along with their aspirations for the neighborhood. Back at the studio, the photographs and interviews were shared with thirty ArtReach students who reflected on the portrait subjects, discussed the influencers’ contributions to the community, and collaborated on selecting relevant portrait materials. For the next three months, the students worked together to create multiple portraits depicting their sitters. As a third layer to the project, fourteen Corcoran alumni artists across a variety of art disciplines also participated by volunteering to create a portrait representation. Working from the same influencers’ information and in their medium of choice, the adult artists created work at their own studios in tandem with the ArtReach students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548811550993-WR0X5DWL45CSL5S5PSLD/portrait_glasses+2.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1553544305729-AT18BW8F8A1IITVY19MG/graphic_design_portrait.jpg Work - Graphic Design by Allie Nambo Community Influencer: Marcus Bachelor - 3rd Generation Resident and ANC Representative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548811897733-A7G0MQ6ACJ6LY9R2NG3E/portrait_watercolor.jpeg Work - Watercolor by Dan Gray Amber Robles Gordon is a local Ward 8 artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548811899383-KQFEAZBQR94S0RS0W81O/portrait_photojournalism_artist.jpeg Work - Photograph by Kristin Adair Community Influencer: Amber Robles Gordon - Local Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548811908758-VZV62N7ZKOSPICT2J55G/marcus_drawing_portrait.JPG Work - Coloring Page by Travis Poffenberger Community Influencer: Markus Bachelor - ANC Representative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548811918832-YAJQGM13VZKN1Y44M09C/print_portrait_alumni.JPG Work - Woodblock Print by Meaghan Busch Community Influencer: Toni Ford - Oral Historian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548811922710-LLI4BOMI8F2DMKZ8KAGN/oral_historian_portrait_project.jpg Work - Photograph by Mimi d'Autremont Community Influencer: Toni Ford - Oral historian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548811942456-YRJ9L5JNO2UAH05Z61NA/portrait_charcoal.jpeg Work - Charcoal Drawing by Deyan Johnson Community Influencer: Darren Harper - Professional skateboarder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812180009-6QERYSHKX2344LQ9MZNY/skateboarder_portrait.jpg Work - Photograph by Joy Yi Community Influencer: Darren Harper - Professional skateboarder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812203497-ITDOC0NGL7H5YANAKRLW/portrait_kymone_radio.jpeg Work - Photography by Kristin Adair Community Influencer: Kymone Freeman - Founder of Radio Station We Act Radio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812196808-3JWYSS4ZQW8N6EQJ16HK/portrait_screenprint.jpeg Work - Screenprint by Beth Hansen Community Influencer: Kymone Freeman - Founder of Radio Station We Act Radio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812214503-2CF0ONLJQVDVG1LXM4WU/garden_portrait_community_project.jpg Work - Photograph by Daniel Martinez Gonzalez Community Influencer: Xavier Brown - Community Builder and Urban Farmer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812221851-R4ET5E62PXV8TU52YRYW/community_portrait_garden.jpeg Work - Oil Painting by Emilia Olsen Community Influencer: Xavier Brown - Community Builder and Urban Farmer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1553548298760-PV5EB38C6E1FDM5GT23B/community_portrait_exhibition.jpg Work - Community Influencers When identifying assets within the community, inclusiveness and transparency are essential. By activating a democratic decision-making process, a variety of residents, local businesses, and organizations were contacted for candidate suggestions. The eight unique portrait subjects selected represented a wide variety of backgrounds, professions, hobbies, and interests. The selected influencers included: an Afro-folk singer, oral historian, urban farmer, local assemblage artist, professional skateboarder, founder of an independent activist radio station, a third-generation resident ANC outreach specialist for the Mayor, and Fredrick Douglas, a historical social reformer from the neighborhood and the only non-living portrait sitter. Each portrait subject represented an enthusiastic commitment to the community by providing their time, energy and genuine dedication to the enhancement and service of their neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812375311-0QJGJ2TR0OVXX00CG9EA/gallery_portrait_exhibition_violet.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812452077-HA20E9SZM2UQLVAWUHMI/gallery_exhibition_portraits_oral_historian.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1553553227421-SCYBFMEBHG8O085RSMQ7/portrait_student_class.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812444468-NSQ2BFM95NFLRQD96TFT/gallery_exhibition_portraits.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812421543-YIXTQTPCF9Z8QQGKTGU5/exhibition_poster_community_portrait.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812550490-2XYEE9YDNEYYMH9J7IAK/community_portrait_exhibition+copy.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812448364-WRMWKK4UHOA73SUBX7AG/portrait_exhibition_introduction.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548812497633-F8ZPAYOCJQZN46E1TY10/portrait_gallery_exhibition_autograph.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548879364163-BOB5YKBAJV9RTQK7M8II/urban_garden_mural_wayneplace.jpeg Work - Urban Garden Projects A multi-year project working with residents of Ward 7 and 8 in Washington, DC to help build relationships, promote environmental civic engagement, and connect health and nutritional education through the arts. The public art projects, located at six urban garden sites, helped to revitalize underutilized communal outdoor spaces, promote healthy lifestyles, and engage residents by deepening their sense of place and connection within the community. Working with students and faculty from the Secondary Education program at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD), the Eleventh Street Bridge Park, University of Columbia’s Urban Agricultural Department, and Corcoran School of Art, Melissa designed creative garden space projects with three Ward 8 resident communities by providing a series of themed workshops exploring the neighborhood’s history, environmental sustainability and food justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548878987901-3YH0QPB1EV4VMVAN8BHJ/urban_garden_mural_installation.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548878930796-Q6IIYWGWIT2BJEOZ55UC/growth_urban_garden_bridgeparkplot.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548878719170-4G6SU9M34Z18VDLXEGNR/urban_garden_mural_portraits.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548878949262-518M9O3HQ1LZULEE2T4R/urban_garden_mural_portraits_growth+copy.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548880516008-9Y5O1SQM9DNSCJQ9RH85/urban_garden_mural_wayneplace_students.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548880512308-1J9D29X40LBAZJYJI14P/urban_garden_muralartist.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548880267222-BER9C3PRLWP33COTB3N5/urban_garden_mural_process.jpg Work ArtReach provided a series of hands-on workshops and studio time twice a week for two months. In preparation for the collaborative garden portrait murals, ArtReach staff conducted interviews and conversations with the residents and neighboring veterans about gardens and personal relationships to fruits and vegetables. Working with the young adult residents, participants created four, eight-foot tall portraits of transitional housing residents depicting themselves with their vegetable and fruit associations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1553616735273-20APH74S9639QDPL20KZ/growth_urban_garden_bridgeparkplot.jpeg Work - Stewardship Art creates a welcoming symbol of regeneration and care that draws residents to the site, changes how they relate to each other, and activates a sense of ownership and possibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548880897923-2J83ZV6EH9RL9TDPUIMO/hope_urban_garden+copy.jpeg Work Dreyvon selected to be portrayed picking an orange from a tree with the word “hope” painted above him. “Oranges are unique to me. And as far as the layers of the orange and everything, you go through the peel, which is all tangy and bitter, and you wouldn’t want to mess with that. Once you get inside to the sweet, good orange, you find out who they are. And I relate to that because sometimes I can come off a bit edgey at times. And, so does an orange. You can’t just bite through the peel. It will be nasty. So you’ve got to take your time and peel it back.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548880868404-N106W24UF15BX80D755K/urban_garden_exhibition_mural.jpg Work - Food is at the center of history Building upon intergenerational community conversations and story telling, the project aimed to provide a communal space for connection and provide education about urban food production and food equity with the purpose of cultivating the health of our community and environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885642571-KCYUXHG0FMH3CJCQNQNQ/stormwater_solutions_doee_cleanup.jpg Work - Watershed Cleanups Working with university student groups, biology faculty from George Washington University and ArtReach students, 12 community cleanups took place with over 235 volunteer particpatnts collecting 4,552 pounds of litter in and around the Oxon Run watershed. At each cleanup event, the groups reflected on the impact of litter on the surrounding environment. The school and family cleanup effort not only helped clear litter and debris but also increased awareness of the damaging effects of waste pollution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549306265833-PBE3B90GA9TQ2G4PEK49/Pumpkinseed+Installed+copy.jpeg Work - Native Species Mosaics While learning about stormwater and experimenting with the mosaic process, the students researched native plants, fish, insects, and birds affected by the community's impact and stormwater issues in the District. After selecting a variety of native wildlife living in and near Oxon Run, the students worked alongside Melissa to curate and create mosaics species. The mosaic work went on permanent display in the outdoor educational amphitheater space in the Living Classroom at THEARC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549306285393-8K671PV77EVNIDI6AL1R/butterfly_mosaic_stormwater_stone.jpeg Work - Civic Engagement Creating positive change in the neighborhood The stormwater project provided a variety of classroom and fieldwork experiences that helped to empower the community by giving them real challenges and helped to develop skills to meet those challenges. Using Oxon Run as a living laboratory, the community participated in ecological service learning projects to improve the health of the watershed. Together they created a new legacy for Oxon Run, for the community, and for the wildlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885347750-D07EHKT986RCX7WA706S/stormwater_solutions_poster_pollution_2.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885352549-UQ8JGVD42ORSE4RJ2MAI/stormwater_solutions_poster_pollution_trash.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885402151-PNIT21LCL15OJEWSEAOF/ArtReach+Poster+5+copy.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885367785-P315GTDGNJZAN6SG1A7D/ArtReach+Poster3+copy.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885812923-FVASNZLPVQJL23WS87QZ/stormwater_mosaic_native_bandedkilifish.jpeg Work - Installation The environmental mosaics help to beautify the space, add educational interest and improve visitors understanding of water quality-related health and wellbeing in upstream and downstream communities and wildlife habitats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885145083-ZVG20SZM7WSVDGCO2HNR/stormwater_solutions_poster_pollution.jpg Work - Stormwater Solutions “In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will only love what we understand, and we will only understand what we are taught” - Baba Dioum, Senegalese Conservationist The Stormwater Solutions Project, a year-long grant awarded project from the District Department of Energy and the Environment, raised awareness of current ecological issues, reconnected residents with a sense of place, activated critical conversations around civic engagement, and fostered a communal sense of pride in the local and broader community. Working with the Washington Middle School for Girls and George Washington University’s Biology faculty and students, residents collaborated on eco-citizenship art projects, environmental stormwater education and a large-scale mosaic installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885256419-Y8PRHHBINIMUDAQ2DPPO/toxinrun_stormwater_environment_doee.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885265044-JWHI60OE3IYQMPK3K99X/sunprint_stormwater_solutions.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885292514-2K4RHH5RDMPZA4A9A0ZU/sunprints_indigo_students_stormwater.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885295095-26U6SPDNUHFU18FPOXXJ/toxinrun_doee_marbling_ink_environment.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548886143730-I2QLQA0TIX4D07C578XY/IMG_0948+copy.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885862929-RFY4AU80LE0M0EXJ9KOU/mosaic_hummingbird_stormwater.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894135606-J5DAKIM73D5D6KFEHIN8/goldfinch_mosaic_stormwater+copy.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548887335428-JHWI20COGP4YPP1J7RD9/bandedkillifish_mosaic_doee.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548885870923-ERU47WF41XI7S743GY1F/stormwater_mosaic_monarch_process.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548887387372-OB3T5DFOJTOTWRFJ6I99/dragonfly_mosaic_doee.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548888929978-K1ZBE7PCA2DUVWQI1Y61/fish_bike_parade_action.jpeg Work - Anacostia River Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564097061730-A8DNRMX0ZRWE9Y8SMIJP/image-asset.jpeg Work - Printmaking Participants, of all ages, designed and created drawings of native and invasive fish. Each hand drawn design was transferred to a screen through a photo emulsion process. The screens where then utilized to create a series of screen prints to be printed onto recyclable mesh windsock fabric. Families helped to create the printed windsocks by inking and pulling the prints with a squeegee. Many participants were trying out the screen printing process for the first time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564078254125-FV01ZVZRPBTLO33BCQCI/fish_windsock_student.jpg Work - The Project was designed to: Inform the public about ecological dynamics and the environmental problems we face Raise awareness of the role each of us play in sustaining the health of our watersheds Learn about the living organisms (native and invasive) and finding connections of the river to our community Stimulate dialogue encouraging long-term conservation to the social and natural environments in which we live Stimulate, inform, inspire and utilize creativity as a catalyst for social change https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548888996402-9OWPXGSX5M88ZBQOKKJN/fish_windsock_printing_paint.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548889006694-S9YATX4RBFEAQR3UPGVJ/fish_painting_event1.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548889024435-IRHLQ92PJ89N2W9TSS9G/fish_windsock_national_mall_workshop.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548893877371-F6QTCCKNWD7UNYFD8UQO/fish_windsock_bikeparade.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548891270038-ZSNAY91M16V89GF9EHY5/bike_parade_fishwheels.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548891279809-LNRV525VLIDF3HX1I1H6/fish_windsock_workshop_screenprint_mom.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548891287694-SR985O6VOE7QPWG1CQHR/fish_windsock_workshop.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548891428292-M8XLFS9P0803PBJ3IHDR/fish_windsock_climate_parade.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548891298122-USAIA5SVXGMSTRCK6JL3/fish_windsock_bike_parade_smile.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548891311243-ZV9F7V50E7RVSLDYJWKA/fish_windsocks_banner.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548891333597-UM040ML7U4M1CSW42X4S/sunfish_pumpkinseed_doee.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548891336823-NLDEO7DCGKBSEXYT8RRX/fish_windsocks_umbrella.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548888730932-NFWW0G5KMNQHD8N7UBKV/fish_windsock_parade_bike.jpg Work - Anacostia River Festival Fish Windsock Bike Parade A socially engaged printmaking project exploring themes from the Anacostia River watershed. Working with the National Park Service, Anacostia Watershed Society, Corcoran College Printmaking Department and Washington Area Bike Association, Melissa designed and hosted a series of educational and studio-based workshops in museums, schools, and community centers around DC to learn about watershed health and create native fish windsocks. The project, held annually for three years, created over four hundred screen printed windsocks depicting native species of the local river. Many of the windsocks were put into motion during the fish bike parade at the first Annual Anacostia River Festival in April. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564077910798-R1CKF06ON6HM9FBG4UC6/bike_parade_2015.jpg Work - Read more about the project featured in the Smithsonian’s research publication Urban Waterways https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564529231688-FWFOJYV6V64YEIGKM814/nicaragua_fish_socks.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564530173984-29K1U2MII5QZ3ET8LGMA/IMG_0293.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564529850640-TE4E5I84FD9MKRRPJMGG/IMG_0317.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564529855618-8DHJO0J73FRQ3OR02YHC/IMG_0181.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564529867602-PBQP1TGJGNERHL9R1JB0/IMG_0377.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564529873441-72YTSVE1WXKA9NTLK3RF/IMG_0260.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564529881284-Q99SATO4QC3CT9WF75GZ/IMG_0441.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564530401591-24S0Z4S9FIC6H1KRVOHI/IMG_0321.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548893786734-2FI6HTRCZCP32JW8NMXB/fish_bike_parade_bikeclub.jpg Work - Fish Windsock Bike Parade The project culminated in a fish windsock bike parade where the windsocks were connected to bikes and put into motion at the Anacostia River Festival. Over 400 handmade windsocks participated in the parade with bicycle groups and individual bikers riding along the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564955809813-3H4W7CDY9UQYTNQCXD3Q/IMG_1011.jpg Work Kohei Urakami, International art student from Japan, designed a unique drawing for the fish windsock project while in the printmaking studio at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Known for his delicate drawings and meticulously executed prints, Urakami uses his talents to execute an exploration of the passing of time in nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548893509514-8C6PXK7V71U24310A2D2/fish_windsock_logo.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548923337340-SZE6T4D23Z5K8WP9L6VI/fish_windsock_parade_dc.png Work - Connecting to Urban Waterways The stories and questions surrounding the fish and their habitats helped create rich and valuable conversations during arts workshops. The educational workshops also helped introduce community members to local river advocates from multiple disciplines. Through partnerships with such environmental organizations as the District Department of Energy and Environment Aquatic Recreation Center (AREC), Earth Conservation Core, and the Anacostia Watershed Society, Melissa was able to provide local youth and families with opportunities to engage in environmental activities and learn about some of the work being done to combat environmental degradation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564079152229-0SENTQH1TG0CT909ZBFG/nicaragua_student_fish.jpg Work - Fish Windsock Project Abroad The project continued overseas when Melissa led a group of college students from George Washington University and community members in El Manzano, Nicaragua on a fish windsock workshop. Despite the language barrier, the community and college student participants collaborated to create depictions of native fish including; Yellowfin Tuna, Striped Marlin, Wahoo, and Tarpon. The “Schools” of fish windsocks went on display in a local elementary school to beautify the space and serve as an educational tool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549305748503-K48ADIFWONITS3FS78YN/tauf_fur.jpg Work Working one-on-one with the Corcoran College of Art and Design students and the ArtReach Master Class students at THEARC, participants created compelling and wearable pieces. During the semester-long class, students explored the fabrication of sound suit-inspired suits incorporating them into a performance combining movement and sound. The original hand-crafted suits were fitted to the Washington Ballet dancers for the choreographed performance. The suits came alive during a performance at THEARC in celebration of the Art in Embassies U.S. Department of State’s 50th Anniversary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549305366226-V0758YY4XWM1SJ1C9NUY/phoenix_wings_don+copy.jpg Work - Wear.Strut.Occupy. Exploring notions of costuming, fashion, sculpture, performance, and wearer/performer. Reasons to wear anything are varied and manifold: to conceal, to reveal, to camouflage or disguise; for protection or to project power or threat; for the purpose of modesty or exhibitionism; to communicate an idea or establish identity, to enhance or impede movement, to express beauty, to impress or to shock. The exhibition approached the broadest possible definition of clothing and adornment as a vehicle to explore the relationship between the individual, the material and the environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549305219551-XIN1Z7RC0DSI8MAMAJYU/collar_exhibition.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549326836721-5RW20UT1RTAEMBZBWIU2/wear.strut.occupy.artreach.class.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549305236646-D10I6XNB3LZB9TW8R2Z3/head_fur.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549305254472-PZAT69U2PBBSCIV7EUVI/wear_strut_occupy_emmani.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549330201180-CUYWIODUFQGY3PBJMN3S/sass_wear_strut_occupy.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549330255514-3PJO3XE4W65UVDC6S438/pink_purple.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549330284583-CFMELZ3YIUGDH360DB23/8031052058_f66954fab7_z.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549330400842-R1IL8BRFXR1V99SVKFJW/red.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549326725249-CRQH9YW8Y9VJSUNKAAZH/wear.strut.occupy.artreach.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549326728370-N469J2ZA900OJZG2RH9M/wear.strut.occupy.artreach.thearc.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549326803208-54T7XCMP8AF7N0TANC3D/wear.strut.occupy.nick.cave.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548903042243-3OFW1G4F41CPJYQ633DH/expressions.wear.strut.occupy.corcoran.jpg Work - Art in Embassies Selected by the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies Program, as part of AIE’s 50th anniversary celebration, Melissa designed an arts curriculum to collaborate with renowned visual artist and dancer, Nick Cave, in a special Artist Exchange presentation. The collaboration included a Corcoran College of Art + Design course on fashion design and social engagement, an ArtReach class at THEARC, and a culminating performance piece. Undergraduate students from CCAD’s Wear.Strut.Occupy collaborated with the Corcoran ArtReach Master Class students in the ArtReach community studio to create compelling suits inspired by the artist Nick Cave. Working with the college students, ArtReach students explored the fabrication of sound suit-inspired suits and incorporating them into a choreographed performance with dancers from the Washington Ballet combining movement and sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894912876-73L2BUMEKSQLFF8K6DPM/freer_smithsonian_fieldtrip.jpg Work - Museum Visit ArtReach teens met the George Washington University graduate students at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery on the National Mall where they received a private tour with the Freer’s curator of American Art. Students examined artwork through cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. While critiquing the aesthetic values of artwork, they also investigated the geographical, political, and economic influences for enhanced cross-cultural understanding. Each student was encouraged to contribute their own perspectives and experiences as a means of understanding and interpreting work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548895012400-AU0TBW2Q0RUEOK6337RB/printmaking_peacock_hpworkshop.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548895286996-VKG0103Z86RVXEUDO6T9/peacock_screenprint_smithsonian.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548897707425-V3ML8LNEB3AI5PQSVW4L/screen_peacock_artreach_freer.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548897697179-GB1C29DTB7FYAK4N0J02/vase_gw_artreach_unclesam.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548897754282-1ARSPPW9KU6Z8QZG9ESV/IMG_4573.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548897725768-24W0ZXNLZXU4L16BMYIA/DSC_0914.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894490126-208EZZODRH00V5PP2WSA/peacock_gw_student_artreach.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894496157-P2K36YX9BFXIRNJN4POO/peacock_vase_student_artreach3.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894503722-7GYIZA0SW6ZQG70I4OVU/peacock_vase_student_artreach.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894718437-W98SEAG02WUTWHH8A47F/peacock_vase_gw_student5.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894733350-879NNH6B8GFC2PUKNDQL/peacock_vase_artreach_student.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894726211-VU0GF7U8U99WLRKUVR84/peacock_vase_gw_student1.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894303830-5WGPZT7WFEQOHQNHX8BY/peacock_printmaking_poster.png Work - Smithsonian Peacock Printmaking Project A summer collaboration with the Smithsonian Freer Art Gallery and Corcoran faculty to create a print installation and catalog of two-dimensional “conflict vases” inspired by James McNeil Whistler’s Peacock Room in the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Darren Watterson’s Filthy Lucre exhibition. Graduate students from George Washington University and Ward 7 and 8 High School students explored themes around conflict, inventive/destructive forces, and private/public space identified in the exhibition. The print installation went on view at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery on the National Mall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894944669-002ZZH4NBHI4UIO7FYDI/peacock_teach_gwu.jpg Work - Teaching The interdisciplinary curricular connections provided participants with arts-based, civically engaged research opportunities that motivate faculty, museum staff, and students to design community engagement experiences locally, nationally, and internationally in ways that enhance and benefit students, faculty and community development. Pre-serviceGraduate students participated in the program along with the ArtReach teens, created screen prints, and were mentored through leading lessons aligned with the project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894835310-BLSH00JCG4SCG6EPS8HD/peacock_screenprinting_gwu.jpeg Work - Screenprinting Melissa and Dennis (Corcoran printmaking faculty) led Washington, DC community teens and graduate students from the George Washington University on a three week printmaking residency. The class investigated the emotional tension behind Whistler’s mural of fighting peacocks installed inside the peacock room at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art. Drawing parallels to their own lives, each participant explored personal stories of conflict and represented these experiences on screen printed vases that were exhibited in a collaborative installation at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548894396957-URFZPH00894N7DCCD050/peacock_printmaking_class_freer_smithsonian.jpg Work - George Washington University + ArtReach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549306062079-YHCGE2ZA3M3O1LH9X2CT/adinkra_mural_cargo.jpeg Work - Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice Using art as a tool for social change, ArtReach worked with community members from Ward 8 to create large-scale collaborative murals in a pop up urban garden, fostering a dialogue around food security. The mural design was informed by members of Union Temple, an Afrocentric Baptist Church, who selected garden-inspired Adinkra symbols and Kente patterns. The bright colors and symbolic patterns attracted community residents and became a conversation hub with new paths, areas for rest and observation, and a space for story sharing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548903868942-J9F5W2BEJQ2C1NEP33BZ/cargo_mural_paint_urban_garden.jpeg Work - Community Paint Day Residents from across the community joined together to design and paint a large-scale mural on two sides of a storage container. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548903617127-Z3QXISCN0EFQLVNJJ2IU/cargo_mural_urban_garden_beforeafter.png Work - Before and After https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548904127595-DMMDIQT672TWZBTVK52U/garden_cargo+copy+2.jpeg Work - Cargo Container Mural Community Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548903506752-KQEH4DCVN201MBPIC3HY/cargo_mural_paint_day_.jpeg Work A multi-year project working with the Eleventh Street Bridge Park, University of Columbia’s Urban Agricultural department, and residents from Ward 7 and 8 in Washington, DC, to help build community relationships, promote civic engagement, and connect health and nutritional education through the arts. The public art projects, located at six urban garden sites, helped revitalize underutilized communal outdoor spaces, engage residents, and promote healthy lifestyles infused with nature. In preparation for the collaborative garden art projects held East of the River, ArtReach conducted a series of interviews and preparatory conversations with residents to gather information, interests and encourage participation. During the interviews residents discussed a lack of healthy food options in their neighborhood, a lack of interactive public space, and highlighted the benefit of the garden on the surrounding community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548903737901-5BVJPR847URKAUIY6KWU/urban_garden_mural_cargo.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548903749429-AWFLDHBIZT5WMG8RAR3A/urban_garden_mural_bridgeparkplot_plants.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549306005359-768Q5BM3VK5F9X2Y0O6O/urban_garden_cargo_mural_detail.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548904644679-E6LM3VPHUWG3FG2LPUMZ/bridge_mural_detail_.jpeg Work - Envisioning a Healthy Community ArtReach was proud to partner with the 11th Street Bridge Park, Risa Fund, and Artolution in the summer of 2015 to create a unique mural connecting students from Ward 6, 7 and 8 in Washington, DC on a collaborative work of art that is representative of communities living on both sides of the Anacostia River. Participants, drawn from high school aged students on both sides of the river, were challenged to illustrate their vision of a “healthy city, community and neighborhood” as part of a collaborative mural project. Each workshop included discussions on how to illuminate the diverse values of each neighborhood, the arts and intercultural communication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548904735061-QVJI7YPCWPPCR3O884TN/bridgepark_mural_students.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548916177407-9K4J1WSRJ0W8VV5COJ49/artreach_healthy_city_mural.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548904820414-AAE6SR2XTK3K1HYJUOKN/bridgepark_mural_inside.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548904827888-Z8W4G05JK6Q68JTS4OKD/bridgeparkmural_detail.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548916237788-CKAAYSY4BH6VT50H6UYI/DSC_0930.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548916066352-CEZ4SKWY9DS9Y7H90A0F/mural_healthy_city.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548904693701-W67TKCEMG1Z50W2B6GAX/bridgepark_mural_outdoor.jpg Work For two weeks, twenty local teens from both sides of the Anacostia River created a 55 foot mural with the goal of envisioning a healthy city and community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548904781732-WFCK1G7N0KU6CPWHGQ2O/bridgepark_mural_group.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548920689731-MR4ZPNNIAEWZV8UMFSZU/bridgepark_mural_artreach_studio.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548916472759-TP2832ODTB28JJBZBK4U/mural_regancenter.jpg Work The large-scale mural went on view at the Ronald Reagan Building and National Trade Center’s Atrium Gallery. The mural will find a permanent home on the Bridge Park when the park is officially complete in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548908248107-SMKTXYQOBOX9UUMSKYE0/fredrick_dourglas_lanterns.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548908252140-09COBMK4T7G8YDQ3MQ8C/lantern_navyyard.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548908267270-YZDUDUS0LCSBS9566PWP/lantern_workshop_bridgepark2.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548908273719-VPM5WXID0TPZ2AR0BGBY/lantern_fredrick_douglas_walk.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548908583468-IGZG5V09ZHTD594I16RM/DSC_0814+copy+2.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548908592684-3FZ3K0IOL7ICEYYP31P9/lantern_walk_artreach_candle.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548908187637-RUPC27BKIY63FCKCDG4S/lantern_night.jpg Work - Lantern Walk The lantern walk was inspired by the story of African American families who built their home in historic neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River in Washington D.C. by candlelight after returning home from a long day’s work. In the mid 1860’s, Barry Farm and Hillsdale were developing communities with pioneering inhabitants. As a tribute to D.C. history, a series of lantern making workshops were held on both sides of the river. Participants learned about the area’s history while collaging historic photographs of the neighborhood, landmarks, and prominent residents from archived documents. To symbolize the journey, the homemade lanterns traveled to the 11th Street bridge on September 17, 2017 where over 300 people walked across the Anacostia River by lantern-light. The celebration, co-hosted by the Eleventh Street Bridge Park and Washington Performing Arts, united residents from across the river with music, food, and flickering light. Article by the DCist recapping the lantern walk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548913093919-T6QFZDNDTZG6IT0W0QFC/mural_first_lady_process.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548914466653-XUFQN6LU3BJKA9MJH50Y/artreach_mural_first_lady.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548913091974-WW5FG9OJ5KAPULKOBNKR/mural_first_lady_finished.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548913062631-HF6HLPAV0HNAP5HXX8XX/mural_congressional_wives.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549307147192-EQIKNGEGRK7VDS3XGWO4/IMG_6681.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549307150692-EIL1S9J6HS4S1JI3SKUL/IMG_6686.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548912949586-5FYXPKRAZQRPI2FZYR1L/first.lady.mural.jbab.jpg Work - Mural with First Lady, Michelle Obama Melissa’s program, ArtReach, was selected for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities First Lady’s annual service project in 2011. Melissa led five Corcoran College of Art and Design students and thirty five Joint Based Anacostia Education Center students to design and create a mural on the air force base with the First Lady and Congressional Wives. The colorful mural is on permanent display at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling - Air Force Base – Youth and Family Education Center which provides care for more than 300 children of military families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1564958414156-PYZZP72GSE1P5325Y0SK/Obama_artwork.jpeg Work We were also honored to present an ArtReach student colored pencil landscape to President Obama. He commented that the student’s artwork looked, “Caribbean inspired”. We liked that it matched his tie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548913848294-PSCXJKGKWJUJH0Y5TESS/first_lady_bug_obama.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548913861777-CLBC7OV8ORH2ENUR8DK6/michelle_obama_artreach.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548913227195-TXRLLK12NZ7KFJ7K7GYS/first_lady_bug_mural.JPG Work - The First Lady Bug We were honored to work with the First Lady of the United States on a collaborative mural for the Air Force base. First Lady, Michelle Obama, laughed when we asked her to paint in the “First Ladybug” on the design. She meticulously painted in the drawing with great care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549062507701-UV0Z77TL76OKEKM06NLT/steamroller_printing_group.jpeg Work - Carving out Freedom The Envisioning Freedom project focused on the implementation of an intergenerational community arts-based collaborative project between Washington, D.C. community members and Corcoran College of Art and Design and University of Maryland faculty and students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548921227960-BSQBNCT9YY0FJMGZH2TH/steamroller_printing_ink.jpg Work - Steamroller Printing The class and community engagement project sought to engage participants in collaborative arts practices and community building. While learning about effective teaching practices for intergenerational communities of diverse learners, participants discussed how projects can impact, change, or influence the reconstruction of our own identities and how we can learn from each other’s backgrounds and traditions. The collaborations culminated in a series of large-format woodblock prints created with a steamroller on a community printing day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1553612311383-BX83NHA1H9T0OLVCPKRF/steamprinting.JPG Work - Four Freedoms Exploring the topic Freedom, with its historical significance connected to President Franklin D Roosevelt’s 1941 Four Freedoms Speech, and the subsequent artwork created by Norman Rockwell - among other related works of art - students and community members shared personal stories, group discussions and interpretations of what freedom means both individually and for a neighborhood or society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549058595819-HEQ2TPL1KBKT452FBYHI/carving_steamroller_print.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549061646768-DO2OIXM5TQJN2LSAQMYX/carving_drill_steamroll.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549061657841-4PKI7O29YRLZAWZJ3X7G/steamroll_printing_peg.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549061672097-J2BF2JWEVY4DX47BXAZL/IMG_1121.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1553615513130-80B8ER1NO8W6AGA93TN9/steamroller_printing_class.jpeg Work The interdisciplinary curricular connections provided participants with arts-based, civically engaged research opportunities encouraging faculty, museum staff, and students to design community engagement experiences locally, nationally, and internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549057189933-K9RLY8ZW3FV1YLR8DKV3/freedoms_exhibition_umd.jpg Work - Exhibition at the University of Maryland Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549058437958-WY4AR6E4PH5Y60I09XFK/gallery_steamroll_exhibition.jpg Work - Exhibition at the ArtReach Gallery at THEARC in Southeast D.C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1549306940250-LTD81MLBBZRPOK5GLSNC/IMG_2309.jpeg Work - Carving Out Freedom, Piecing a Community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1548921419829-LY4L2QG9J65AK2YMX1BE/GetFileAttachment+copy.jpg Work - Cross-disciplinary During the six week experience, the collaborators conducted oral interviews, created mammoth woodcuts, wrote narratives and poetry, and recorded a video documentation of creative ideation on the concept of the four freedoms. The project culminated with a community steamroller printing day held in the parking lot of the community center. Participants engaged visitors in inking the woodblocks for printing and taking a turn at the wheel. The steamroll block prints went on display at the National Park Service Kenilworth Gardens, ArtReach Community Gallery at THEARC and the University of Maryland Art Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1565025934084-N5WQB7MZKUOOZB2EURIC/one.million.bones.nationalmall.dc.jpg Work - One Million Bones One Million Bones was a large-scale social arts project, which used education and hands-on art making to raise awareness of genocides and atrocities going on around the world. Through a series of lectures with the founder, Naomi Natalle, and hand-building bone workshops, led by Melissa, the Corcoran faculty, students and staff created over 1,200 handmade ceramic and biodegradable paper bones that contributed to the One Million Bones collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1565027325525-662NK2IIO2VPYMPNAFXG/one.million.bones.ceramic.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1565027292595-OCZXZPH2EK9JSTN4NEQF/Screen+Shot+2019-08-05+at+10.44.15+AM.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1565026166358-NFDH3IIQLIQ9BHOTKXHN/one.million.bones.dc.jpg Work - Socially Engaged Project Over a weekend, students and staff took part in the collaborative installation of 1,000,000 bones on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The installation served as a collaborative site of conscience to remember victims and survivors, and a as a visible petition to raise awareness of the issue. Every bone created through this initiative generated a $1 donation to C.A.R.E. for their work on the ground in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/7084cb17-bc19-47b5-8ee2-d4562eab5d45/Osprey_Nov1.jpg Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/200253c3-1506-41d6-ad41-1ff1ff07e177/Snowy_Owl.jpg Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/03dfda72-7ac1-4f7f-986a-f1c28766073c/TuVuMG.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/f13be205-f24d-4a17-86d2-f2dd48ac3e76/TuVuCUT_RecycleV6.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/60b10a35-d524-43ce-bd6b-b71dc048db6f/NoHA+%28Page+4+FINAL%29.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/6e2c9269-99bd-405c-a9fd-c4bcfc6d04ae/AMKE_flight_Cut_Fin.png Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1b1a49ab-71cd-4e81-a9c4-2f880636739b/Osprey_p.png Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/f25b6aa9-4ee6-4528-bef2-d213dd4995e8/Osprey_Aerodynamics.png Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/08376757-68fc-4811-aab3-fe851bcf49f9/AMKE_on_wire_p.png Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/be6fc7e6-4e80-4f74-9bd8-47567dde0f18/Wingspan_PNG.png Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/037a3751-572f-41eb-85d6-0fe3126b3a85/Osprey_Head_Fact.png Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/c98f26eb-fe81-4cad-a454-acc2f179d1c1/Burrowing_Owl_Green_.png Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/e6f8b940-436b-4ee6-9f33-d4789c23f3be/Saw-Whet.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/37e13f55-1982-4b68-adde-bfa63311028f/Barred.png Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/80bfced8-653c-400e-8d9b-d0bc48642854/Hawk4.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1657151979957-NYMI7AW2PPXSCORBNPI3/TuVuCUT_RecycleV6.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1657151995276-EN351SXKVMFQZ4C0TG1I/NoHA+%28Page+4+FINAL%29.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1657159329641-C6BDASCPPJAE8V2QQ7FP/Barred.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1657159777313-C42WCPK4O8K68KM7DY8Z/Tuvu2.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1657160038634-7400IIV05OJB6N7FMM4C/Hawk4.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/1657152008521-ZRZEVKNGDCLTCK9NZ6S7/Saw-Whet.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/2438887e-0cd8-4577-b6ec-52bf7e080990/Screenshot+2025-01-14+at+5.49.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Work Evening workshops topics included: Grief and Loss, Personal Empowerment, Family Resiliency, Emotional Management, and Positive Identity Formation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/afb2e6b6-10c3-4279-bf36-7d61a66624d2/IMG_6573.jpg Work Collaborative Mandala Workshop for Trauma and Relentless Stress with Covenant House Emergency Shelter residents (ages 18 - 24). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c36a0561aef1d34a0a3625d/6b6e674c-f99d-4a76-a384-99a3f74c70b7/Screenshot+2025-01-14+at+5.49.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Work Fostering wellness through therapeutic creative expression. 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