Resume
Melissa Misoda
melissa@melissamisoda.com
(206) 818-8671
Education
2022 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Wa
2004-2006 Alfred University, MFA in Glass Alfred, NY
2003 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA - Neon
2000-2003 Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA - welding, forging,
sandcasting, wire working, glassblowing
Seattle Pacific University Seattle, WA stone carving, ceramics,
drawing
2000 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA -Sandcasting
1997-1999 Tyler School of Art, BFA, cum laude, Glass & Education,
Philadelphia, PA
1995-1996 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1992-1995 Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
Work
1999- Present Sammamish High School, Glass instructor, Art department
chair, Bellevue, WA
2007-2009 Chihuly Inc. Independent glass artist, Seattle, WA
2006 Alfred University, Glass instructor, Alfred, NY
2005 Bucks County Community College, Visiting artist, Newtown, Pa
Pilchuck Glass School, Assistant to Daniel Weiner, Stanwood, WA
2000-2004 Bellevue Community College, Glass Instructor, Bellevue, WA
2001 Pilchuck Glass School, Teaching assistant, Stanwood, Wa
Pratt Fine Art Center, Teaching assistant, Seattle, WA
1999 Crefeld High School, Student Teacher, Chestnut Hill, PA
1998 Hot Soup Glass Studio, Teaching assistant, Philadelphia, PA
Public Collections
2020 “Arctic Tide” Kittitas Valley Medical Center, Ellensburg, Wa
Awards/ Press
2021 King 5 Evening News Story
2021 Washington State Public Art Roster
2007 Tacoma Glass Museum, Artist Residency, Tacoma, WA
2004 Alfred University, Graduate Assistantship, Alfred, NY
2003 Pilchuck Glass School, Student scholarship, Stanwood, WA
2000 Pilchuck Glass School, PONCHO Scholarship Stanwood, WA
Publications
2021 Fall issue of American Craft Magazine
2007 New Glass Review 28, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
2006 500 Glass Objects, Lark Publishing
Exhibitions
2021 “Op Art-Glass” Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, Fl.
“Arts Thrive” Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
2020 “Reflections” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Transparent As Glass?” International Juried exhibition Brooklyn, NY
“7th Annual Abstract Sanctuary” Verum Ultimum Gallery Portland, OR
“20x20x20 Member Show” Gallery-One, Ellensburg, WA2019
“Oh Deer” Gallery-One, Ellensburg, WA
2018 “Glasstastic!” Bellevue Art Museum Bellevue, WA
2014 Taos Glass Invitational, Wilder-Nightingale Gallery, Taos, NM
“Out of Town” Contemporary Glass Society online exhibition
3rd Annual Art Educators Show Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, WA
2008 “On the Wall” Chappell Gallery, New York, NY
“Winter Glass” Rebecca V Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2007 MFA Juried Exhibition Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NM
“Visual Seduction” Morgan Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 “Concentric Circles” Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
SOFA Chicago, Chappell Gallery, Chicago, Il
“Alfred on 25th” Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
“Dada Domestique” Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY
2005 Pilchuck Glass Group Exhibition William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Glass Art Society Conference Annual Exhibition Global Art Venue,
Adelaide, Au
2004 “Student Exhibition” The Loupe Gallery, Prattsburg, NY
“Bound and Unbound” Melissa Misoda & Amy Cao, Global Art
Venue, Seattle, WA
2002 Student Show Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1999 “Light Through Skin” Pentimenti Gallery Philadelphia, PA
Emerging Artists Show Art Forms Gallery, Manayunk, PA
Student Show Glass Art Society, Tampa, FL
“I am Beautiful” works by Melissa Misoda Tyler Gallery, Elkins Park, PA