Melissa Harshman received her MFA 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. She was honored with the Dedicato a Cortona Award in April of 2017 from the University of Georgia. In 2018 Harshman was awarded a Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship also from the University of Georgia. Her work was recently on display at the Zuckerman Museum of Art in the exhibition “Time Like the Present”, in a group exhibition at Goodyear Arts in Charlotte, NC, the Morgan Conservatory Gallery in Cleveland, OH, the Carrollton Center for the Arts in Carrollton, GA and at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, GA. She recently presented papers at the Impact International Printmaking Conference in Spain in 2018 and the SECAC Conference in Knoxville in 2019. She was awarded a 2019 Senior Faculty Research Grant from UGA titled “Explorations in Papermaking” and attended a workshop at the Women’s Studio Workshop in August on excavations in papermaking. Her work can be seen at melissaharshman.com.