8/4/2023 0 Comments Virginia moca galleriesBest In Show: “Path,” The Eclectic, National Open Media Juried Exhibition, D'Art Center, Norfolk, Virginia Taylor Visual Art Center, Hampton, Virginia Award of Excellence: “Nine,” Virginia Artists Juried Exhibition, Charles H. 3rd Place, 2018 Stockley Gardens Fall Arts Festival, Juried Fine Art Festival, Norfolk, Virginia Graduate Assistantship, MFA Graduate Program, Radford University, Radford, Virginia Top Graduate Award of Excellence, Radford University Art Museum Juried Student Art Exhibition, Radford, Virginia Award of Merit, An Occasion for the Arts, Williamsburg, Va Mixed Media Award of Merit, Sidewalk Art Show, Sponsored by Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia 2nd Place: Virginia’s Finest Award, Boardwalk Art Show, Sponsored by Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, Virginia Graduate Teaching Fellowship, MFA Graduate Program, Radford University, Radford, Virginia Best In Show: Purchase Prize Award, Radford University Art Museum Juried Student Art Exhibition, Radford, Virginia Award of Distinction, An Occasion for the Arts, Williamsburg, Va Best In Show: Boardwalk Art Show, Sponsored by Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, Virginia Award of Merit, Teaching Artist Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Top Artist Under 40: Boardwalk Art Show, Sponsored by Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, Virginia Teacher Candidate, Clinical Experience, 6th and 8th grade, Hamburg Middle School, Hamburg, PA Teacher Candidate, Clinical Experience, 9th Grade, Whitehall Coplay High School, Whitehall, PA Taught 5 class periods per day for ages 3-8 Art Faculty, ESF Summer Camps, Chester Springs, PA Taught full day art courses once a week for ages 14-18 Art Faculty, Rawls Museum Arts Education Outreach Program, Rawls Museum Art, Courtland, VA, Taught 1 and 2 day art workshop intensives for adult ages Art Faculty, Workshop Instructor, Virginia Museum of Fine Art Studio School, Richmond, VA Taught 2 MWF Art 100 sections per semester Professor of Record, Art Appreciation, Radford University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Radford, VA. Previous courses taught include Visual Thinking Through Art Media, Product Design, Architecture, Animation, and Global Perspectives. Full Time Visual Arts Faculty, Visual and Performing Arts Academy, Salem High School, Virginia Beach, VAĬurrently teach college curriculum level courses to advanced academy art students ages 14-18 including Art History and Production, Painting and Mixed Media, Ceramics and Sculpture, and Senior Synthesis. Adjunct Visual Arts Faculty, Tidewater Community College, Norfolk, VAĬurrently teach 2d-Design and Art Appreciation Radford,VA College of Visual and Performing Arts She has also been awarded in juried exhibitions and festivals, including a Best of Show at the 2021 Boardwalk Art Show, Best of Show at the d’Art Center's National Juried Exhibition, and the Museum Purchase Award Winner at Radford University Art Museum’s Juried Student Art Exhibition.Ĭollege of Visual and Performing Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts: Drawing Concentration The pieces have been shown at a variety of established academic institutions, museums, fine art galleries, and art centers, with recent solo exhibitions at Stravitz Sculpture and Fine Art Galleries and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art Community Gallery. Her work explores the spaces between art, psychology, and the semiotics of metaphor, storytelling, and symbolism. Currently, she teaches at Tidewater Community College and the Visual and Performing Arts Academy of Salem High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia as she continues to create and exhibit her personal work. She received her Master of Fine Art Degree from Radford University where she also served as Professor of Record for Art Appreciation courses. Drawing as a concentration gave her flexibility to work with a variety of media and formats, which suited her natural inclination to work with wet and dry media in non-traditional ways. Melissa Schappell was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia and attended Kutztown University of Pennsylvania where she received a Bachelor of Fine Art with a concentration in Drawing and a Bachelor of Science Art Education.
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