Jean Brennan is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Her mediums are sculpture, installation and performance in a response to place—what we know about it, what lives there, and the built or natural features of site.

Inspired by ecology and thinkers like Donna Haraway, she considers how the poetics of visual form destabilize an anthropocentric view of the natural world. Recurring themes include a fascination with atmospheric forces, plants, phenomenology, color and the sublime. Her work takes the form of a lyrical essay loosely assembling scientific research, historical and pop culture references with personal reflection.

Jean received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Sierra Nevada College in 2019. For her undergraduate degree, she studied World Literature and Cultural Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. She also completed a six month certificate/residency with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems in 2003.

She has exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Nevada, Amsterdam, and the Hudson Valley. In 2014, she was a jury-selected resident at The New Museum. She is a professor at Pratt Institute.

Justin Favela is a Las Vegas native working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and performance. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts from UNLV.  He has participated in group exhibitions across the United States. Las Vegas venues include the Contemporary Arts Center, Trifecta Gallery and Kleven Contemporary. His work draws from art history, popular culture and his heritage. When Justin is not in the studio, he is probably watching tv.

Jen Graham was born in Las Vegas, Nevada.  She moved to Reno in 1999 to attend the University of Nevada, Reno where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Art in 2003.  She initially worked exclusively in photography, but after graduating from college she began working with embroidery and sewing, inspired by her mother who is an avid sewer and quilter.  She uses traditional embroidery and patchwork techniques to both reinvestigate American history and discuss current political and social issues. Her most recent project Trajectory Patterns is a visual representation of all of the mass shootings that took place in the United States in 2016, consisting of panels of suiting and apparel fabrics with embroidered labels where one inch of fabric represents one person who was shot.  The finished piece is 167 feet long.  She has exhibited her work throughout the United States in both solo and group exhibitions, most recently in the Tilting the Basin exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art.  Jen has also been an active member of the Reno art community as a curator, organizing exhibitions at local galleries and non-traditional spaces.

Matthew Couper (b. 1976, Hastings, New Zealand) is based in Las Vegas after immigrating to the USA in 2010. His practice over the past decade has appropriated aspects of western Art History including Trecento, Quattrocento and the Baroque. His work adapts established narrative traditions of Spanish Colonial retablos and ex–votos to discuss the space between myth, religion and art politics. He recently stated that ‘like any good Johnny Cash, Nick Cave or Pixies song, you’ve got to have sex, death and religion fueling the fire.’

More recently Couper's work has moved from his interest in Las Vegas representing global trends as a cultural currency to the water issue affecting the Southwestern United States. “I feel the lean of the fatalistic here – the glittering testament to the man-made in the middle of an arid desert,” Couper writes. “Coupled with the threats of water running out, you’re living on the edge of the precipice here, which evokes a specific, urgent kind of artwork.”

He exhibits in the USA at Room, Brooklyn, NY; Zoya Tommy, Houston, TX; La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; France at Gimpel+Muller, Paris and New Zealand at PAULNACHE; Gisborne and Rayner Bros, Whanganui.

Joseph DeLappe is the Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland where he relocated early in 2017 after 23 years directing the Digital Media program at the University of Nevada, Reno. A native San Franciscan, he has been working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance, sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and abroad ‐ including exhibitions and performances in Australia, the United Kingdom, China, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Mexico, Italy, Peru, Sweden and Canada. In 2006 he began the project dead‐in‐iraq , to type consecutively, all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army first person shooter online recruiting game. In 2013, he rode a specially equipped bicycle to draw a 460 mile long chalk line around the Nellis Air Force Range to surround an area that would be large enough to create a solar farm that could power the entire United States. More recently he developed the concept behind “Killbox”, an interactive computer game about drone warfare created with the Biome Collective in Scotland. Killbox was recently nominated for a BAFTA Scotland (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) as “Best Computer Game”.

He has lectured throughout the world regarding his work, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, CBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and on The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio. His works have been featured in the New York Times, The Australian Morning Herald, Artweek, Art in America and in the 2010 book from Routledge entitled “Joystick Soldiers The Politics of Play in Military Video Games” among many others. He has authored two book chapters, including “The Gandhi Complex: The Mahatma in Second Life.” Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design, (New York, Routledge 2011) and “Playing Politics: Machinima as Live Performance and Document”, Understanding Machinima Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds, (London, UK, Continuum 2012).

Eunkang Koh received her B.F.A. from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, South Korea and M.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach, California. Eunkang has shown her devotion to art and the art making process. She has had significant solo exhibitions that includes Main Gallery, The Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists in Alberta, Canada, La Taller in Bilbao, Spain and The Lab, San Francisco, Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco .  Koh also has international exhibition record such as Centro Civico Pati Limona in Barcelona, Spain; Ningbo Gallery in Shanghai, China; and Art Space Jungmiso in Seoul, South Korea. She has participated selective group shows including Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California, Central Booking in New York City, and the Gorman Museum at University California, Davis.  Eunkang has been to artist in residencies including Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium, China Gualan Original Printmaking Base in Shenzhen, China and Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California.   

Paul Baker Prindle’s images build on the traditions of portraiture, but quickly confound those traditions by using index, vernacular conventions, and the landscape to evoke impressions of the body that go beyond what is visually represented.  This work reflects a number of strategies for engaging The Real, Gay and Queer identities, memory, and the practice of portrait making from various emotional positions including loss, isolation, trauma, and melancholia. 

Paul Baker Prindle (b. La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA) has exhibited in Austin, Baton Rouge, New York City, San Francisco, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Knoxville, Los Angeles, and Madison, Wisconsin.  His work ahs been published by Out and Out.com, Advocate.com, Our Lives, Venison Magazine, and Männer and has received mention in ArtForum Diary, Wisconsin Gazette, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  Objects from his series Mementi Mori are held by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and the Wisconsin Museum of Art.  He lives in Reno, Nevada. 

Katie Lewis received her BA from Colorado College and her MFA from California College of the Arts. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art Luxembourg, Museum Rijswijk – The Netherlands, Nevada Museum of Art, Stanford University, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco State University, and the Patricia Sweetow Gallery. She has been awarded grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Sierra Arts Foundation and a residency at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She has also been included in the publications The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography and Cartographies of Time both published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Candace Nicol Garlock is an artist, educator and galleries curator at Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada. She also sits on the board at Doral Academy of Northern Nevada and Rocky Mountain Print Alliance. Candace’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and occupies such prestigious permanent collections as the Boise Art Museum, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper at Rutgers University, Southern Graphics Council Archives, The Kinsey Institute, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Painting and Sculpture Museum Association, Istanbul, Turkey.  She has been awarded the distinguished Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowship in 2009 and the 2017 Nevada Regent’s Creative Activities award.  She also has been awarded an honorable mention in Printmaking Today, a review of fine art printmaking at the Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art, and the Castle of Castiglione Museum, Abruzzo, Italy.  Nicol’s work can also be seen in 100 Artists of the Male Figure by E.Gibbons.

A Native Nevadan, Candace uses the male figure as a means of formulating a response to her experiences in Nevada’s often contradictory landscapes of desire. Her work has been described as a fusion between printmaking, painting, and digital photography.  As a result, Candace’s multilayered compositions posit engaging questions to viewers regarding relationships, social identities, and societal issues surrounding the female gaze.

BARBARA HOLMES is a sculptor and furniture maker who received her MFA from San Diego State University in 2002 and her BFA from Brigham Young University in 1993.  Her work has been included in group exhibitions locally at Headlands Center for the Arts, Museum of Craft and Design, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Root Division, Catharine Clark Gallery, The Compound Gallery, and in group exhibitions nationally at the Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA), Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside,CA), Divan Gallery (La Jolla, CA), Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI), Ironworks Factory Space (Madison, WI), Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Ana, CA), and Sushi Art Space (San Diego, CA).  She has been awarded Artist Residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO), Recology San Francisco, and The Capital City Arts Initiative at St. Mary’s Art Center (Virginia City, NV), and has work in the permanent collection at SFMOMA.  She also has extensive teaching experience, having taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, San Diego State University, Southwestern College, Mira Costa College, and currently at California College of the Arts.  Much of her practice has focused on the reclamation and creative reuse of discarded construction material.

Jennifer Garza-Cuen is a photographer from the Pacific Northwest.  She received her MFA in photography and MA in the History of Art and Visual Culture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her BA in comparative literature was completed at the American University in Cairo. During both years of her attendance at RISD, she received the prestigious RISD GS competitive grant. She was also awarded the Daniel Clarke Johnson, the Henry Wolf, and the Patricia Smith Scholarships. Additionally, she has received fellowships to attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Oxbow, Brush Creek, and Hambidge. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and published in contemporary photography journals such as Blink, The Photo Review and Conveyor Magazine.

Megan Berner graduated with her MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa in 2008. Originally from the high desert, she lived in Iowa for three cold winters before moving back to the west.

Megan is currently a lecturer at Truckee Meadows Community College, where she teaches photography and video classes. She is currently serving as a Commissioner for the Reno Arts and Culture Commission and is on the board of the Holland Project. Megan is an artist. Her work is greatly influenced by the landscape of her native Nevada home as well as the vast prairies of the Midwest, being a twin, mapping and exploration, and countless hours of daydreaming. She creates site-specific installations that incorporate video and sound and constructs performative scenes that ultimately exist as photographs. Other forms her artwork takes include artist's books, collaborative interactions, textile projects, and narrative videos.

Zoe Bray is a social anthropologist and artist, born in France to a French Basque mother and an English father. She moved to Reno, Nevada, in 2011, to take on the position of professor at the University’s Center for Basque Studies. There, she taught and researched on art and politics, until 2015. Zoe was trained as a painter at the Charles Cecil Studios and the Florence Academy of Art, in Italy, and with the realist painters Antonio Lopez Garcia and Guillermo Muñoz Vera, in Spain. She has a Masters degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Phd in Social and Political Science from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Zoe paints directly from life, her interest being people and their cultural and natural environment. She is currently in Jerusalem, where she paints the portraits of the diverse inhabitants of this complex city. Other artistic projects include the production of what she calls “ethnographic tableaux”, small dioramas made out of recycled material, that depict the life of sheepherders in Palestine and amongst the Basques, with all their current political, economic and ecological challenges.

Michelle Lassaline is a working artist in Reno, Nevada. Her work is made with materials essential to her memories of childhood: watercolors, paper, wood, textiles, and papier mache. The central theme of her work can be described by the Portuguese word saudade, which roughly translates to "homesickness," but also carries the meaning of invented memories. For example, you may feel saudade for your childhood home, a place much grander in your memory than the building that now sits at the same address. Or perhaps, like Michelle, you feel saudade for the time you played in a marching band of masked animals dancing down the streets of 1916 Zurich. Saudade is the homesickness for somewhere that never existed except in the form of that fleeting land called childhood. 

Born August 22, 1942 in Copenhagen. Lives and works in the hills behind Piacenza in Northern Italy, and in the woods north of Copenhagen.

In his work NES LERPA has been inspired by Hans Øllgaard, André Masson, Phillip Martin and Emilio Vedova. Their friendship has been of great importance as well as his travels to Spain, France, England, Italy, Lappland, Morocco and India, where he stayed for long periods.

NES LERPA made his début in 1960, and since then his works have been exhibited in many European countries, in the U.S., in China and India.

Photographs by Frances Melhop

Wes Lee works in a variety of media that includes pastel, charcoal, oils and collagraphs. His
art often combines observation of the natural world with an imaginary one, and incorporates
his interest in large-footed birds, bugs, the human figure, pattern and the local desert
landscape. Inspired by both classical realism and pop surrealism, his compositions include
personal symbolism through an exploration of perceptions of time, self and the balance &
imbalance of chaos vs. order.
Wes Lee graduated from Cal. State University, Fullerton, California with a B.A. in Fine Art with
an emphasis in drawing & painting. Notable life experiences include living three years in an
alternative community in Southwest England, and hitchhiking for nine weeks through northern
Europe. He currently lives in his studio on the south bank of the Truckee River, Reno, NV.

Hampton considers herself a griot or griotte, a term used to describe a particular order of storytellers in West Africa who are traditionally born into a griot family, and who are entrusted with the histories and genealogical connections of their people. They retell these stories by oral means through song, poems, and narrations.  Similarly, Hampton’s work is rooted in the stories of her family and the African American experience, but it differs from that of other griots in her choice of visual, rather than oral, methods of storytelling. (Susanna White, Lead Curator, Karen Hampton, The Journey North Catalogue, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum, Hamilton College, 2015)

As an artist she is a feminist who seeks female voices that have been obscured, overlooked, and unheard, particularly when discussing history and culture; and most specifically she wants the voices of women of color. It is Hampton’s desire to broaden our understanding of art and history. She wants to discover where women fit in history and how they have contributed to it. Hampton has a desire to reveal the complexities and humanities of these voices. (Gylbert Garvin Coker, Ph.D., International Review of African American Art, Summer 2015)

Hampton has degrees in both art and anthropology. As an anthropologist, she makes use of historical memory, a process in which, according to historian Pierre Nora, memory becomes a subject especially when great changes take place in society and rupture the existent flow of events. In Hampton’s work the social change that occurs takes place in the United States and manifests itself in the increasing diversity of its population and the challenges that this diversity is creating on the character of the nation. (Susanna White, Lead Curator, Karen Hampton, The Journey North Catalogue, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum, Hamilton College, 2015)

Inge Bruggeman is Assistant Professor and Director of the Graphic Arts/Book Arts Program at the Black Rock Press in the Art Department at the University of Nevada Reno. Inge’s work revolves around the idea of the book — the book as object, artifact and cultural icon. She makes artist’s books, fine press publications, prints, and other text-based art that investigates our personal and collective relationship to the shifting role of the book, print media and text in our world today. Inge has an avid interest in the history of the French livre d'artiste and the contemporary artist's book in France. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally and can be found in museums and collections such as the British Library in London, England, Atelier Vis-à-Vis in Marseille, France, Jack Ginsberg Artist Book Collection in Johannesburg, South Africa, Joan Flasch Collection at the Art Institute in Chicago, Portland Art Museum, Walker Art Center, Getty Research Institute, and many University collections such as Stanford, Harvard, and Columbia University in NYC.

Stewart Easton is a London based artist currently working in hand embroidery and digital print on fabric. His work is focused on stitch and narrative using authorial illustration to create large scale embroidered panels.

Using folk song and story as a starting point Easton weaves story-based narratives,utilising the space of a single panel to explore time, movement and transition within his tapestry based works.

He is currently making use of a hybrid technique mixing digital print with hand embroidery exploring both modern and traditional methods of creating, enabling his work to straddle the lines between Craft, Illustration and Fine Art.

London based artist Claire Scully has been working as a freelance illustrator since graduating with her MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins in 2006, with an expanding client list including: New York Times, The Guardian, penguin books, Random House, National Maritime Museum, Adidas, Howies, Wallpaper* magazine and Burton Snowboards.

Scully draws upon a detailed love of the observed. Using found and self-authored photographs as a starting point; she has developed an intensely detailed representation of what she sees as the essence of nature.

Scully creates a fantastical world; highlighting the natural patterns in the environment and nature, whilst at the same time integrating these same forms creating an essence of wonder and beauty which she uses to fill the natural form of animals.

“Brian Schorn is an artist, writer, graphic designer and photographer whose music been performed in France, Austria, New York, and Oakland. His visual art has been exhibited and published widely for the last twenty years in numerous solo exhibitions. His creative writing has been published in many books, journals and anthologies, and he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. Hand-made poetry books by Schorn can be found in the Marvin Sackner Collection of Concrete and Visual Poetry. He has taught art, graphic design and creative writing, including at the University of Michigan, Brown University and Interlochen Arts Academy. He's hung the work of many well known artists in various capacities as a gallery and/or museum preparator, including work by artists like Yoko Ono, Jean Dubuffet, Julian Schnabel, Duane Hansen, Jules Olitski, Martin Puyear, and Frank Stella, an artist who has been at the forefront of abstract art for half a century. Brian Schorn has also juried and curated various local and university art exhibitions and art publications.”

DEON REYNOLDS. My art is the product of curiosity: photographs I never intended to take, in places I never expected to visit. The lonely dirt tracks of the Great Basin invite me to investigate where they go and discover why were they built? Sometimes the road will take me to an old mine, ranch or an amazing geologic formation which usually provides a plethora of images, and even more questions. Investigating and documenting this rich history of the American West has become a passion of mine, especially since most of it is disintegrating so quickly.

Panoramas convey landscapes so well and the ease and spontaneity of the disposable camera allows me to be more emotionally responsive to the environment. Since the viewfinder isn’t very accurate, I’m never really certain what I’m going to get on film. It’s kind of like exploring Nevada, you’re never really sure what you are going to find! I’ve had a camera in my hand and have been processing my own film since I was seven years old.

I shoot these images with vintage Kodak Fun Saver Panoramic 35 disposable cameras. First, I tear off the cardboard cover, pry open the camera, and pull out the color print film. Using a fine file I modify the frame inside. Then, I load it with Tri-X black and white film. Some of my disposables have had hundreds of rolls of film through them. The camera has a two element plastic 25mm lens with a fixed f/12 aperture and single 1/125th of a second shutter speed. I adjust exposure and contrast with filtration and film processing times.

Emily Silver’s landscape-based abstract paintings reflect her deep personal connection to the Great Basin desert landscape and geography. As a former northern Nevada resident, her art describes how a strong sense of place influences her work more now that she lives on the Pacific coast.

Jayna Conkey is a Professor of Graphic Communications and Photography at Western Nevada College where she has directed the Graphic Communications Program since 2000. She earned her MFA in Photography and Electronic Media from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1996 and her B.A in Fine Arts from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1987. Before returning to Nevada, she was a Professor of Photography at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon from 1997-2000. Her work is influenced by conceptual art and graphic design.

Milla van der Have (1975) wrote her first poem at 16, during a physics class. She has been writing ever since. Her work hasbeen published in various magazines, both in the US and UK, One of her short stories won a New Millennium Fiction Award. In 2015 she published Ghosts of Old Virginny, a chapbook of poems about Virginia City. Milla lives and works in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Gold rushin'

Pale dawn. You sleep, your brow

still set with dreams. I wait for

the quiet release of your breath.

Things have a way of happening

again. You turn and I follow

the easy grace of your back

against the sheets. We've been

here before. The shimmer

of love in a window,

a rolling slope that's bound

to break against the crest of everyday.

Phyllis Shafer has been a full-time instructor in the Art Department at Lake Tahoe Community College since 1994. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Since coming to Lake Tahoe Community College, Shafer has taught a wide range of art classes including painting, drawing, design, and art history. Shafer is also a practicing artist and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1984. She is currently represented by Stremmel Gallery in Reno, NV. In February 2014, the Nevada Museum of Art staged a mid-career retrospective exhibition of Shafer’s artwork titled, “I Only Went Out for a Walk”.

"I live in the corner of Nevada that tucks itself into California. Reno isn’t cute or hip, it’s just a western reaching town that’s jarringly honest. This is the landscape I grew up hating and grew into loving. Burrowing in I’ve printed zines, sewn fibers and furs, wrote stories, ran a gallery, coordinated craft events, left the studio in the wee hours and kept my ears to the ground. Through all of this there are two currents: I have my mother’s honesty and my father’s drive to never lay busy hands to rest."

"Born in 1984, Sarah Lillegard is a mixed-media artist currently residing in Reno, NV. Lillegard received her BA from Walla Walla University in 2007 and has since co-founded the Go For Broke Zine Collective, as well as shown work in the Northwest and Northern Nevada. Her fiber and mixed media pieces explore experiences of belonging, the culture of death and personal mythology/folklore. Coming from a family of quilters and craftsmen, Lillegard’s medium relies heavily on textures, reclaiming materials and incorporating traditions of handicraft."

Born and raised in Olympia, Washington, Nate Clark moved to the Great Basin in 2006 to attend the University of Nevada, Reno. After graduating with a BFA in painting and photography in the spring of 2010, Nate biked across the country with two friends, stopping in Chicago, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington D.C. to see artwork. This four-month 5,000-mile bike trip greatly informed Nate’s artistic practice and he continues to work with themes of process, systems and repetition. 

Upon returning to Nevada in 2011 Nate began working for the Reno Bike Project while showing artwork actively. Nate’s work was most recently featured in the University of Nevada, Reno’s downtown gallery, Artspace, in the fall of 2014. In 2015 Nate received Honorable Mention from the Nevada Arts Council for the Artist Fellowship Grant, and received a 2015 Grants to Artist from the Sierra Arts Foundation.

My work is primarily concerned with the stripping back of an image.  Through the stencil process I search for the point where an image forms and dissolves.  My work consists of two parts, the painting and the stencil. The stencils are residues of my painting process, which hold traces of the hand on the outskirts of a preconceived structure of voids. The editing process of the stencil reduces the image down to what is essential leaving a confetti of geometrics.

SIDNE TESKE has been making art professionally for 35 years. Primarily working with soft pastels, Teske works on location (en plein aire), depicting landscape with vibrant, energetic originality. When weather makes it difficult to explore the outdoors, Teske turns to her studio easel to create large expressive works that feature the human figure. Although she has taken a few workshops over the span of her career, Teske is largely self-taught.

Teske has received many awards and honors, including an invitation by the Smithsonian Institution to participate in the Folklife Festival on the Mall in June and July of 2005. She was chosen to create the Nevada Governor’s Arts Awards that were presented in 2004, and a poster she designed for the Bureau of Land Management and Nevada Rock Art Association won first place at the National Competition of the Society of American Archaeologists in 2003.

Frances Melhop is a visual artist, curator and gallery director, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, now living in the USA. She has worked globally in the fashion industry as a photographer, constructing imagery; conceptualizing, shooting, and directing stories for publications such as Vogue Italy editions, Vogue Australia, Elle Portugal, and Marie Claire Italy.

In 2009, Luerzer's Archive named Melhop one of The World’s 200 Best Advertising Photographers for the images she created for the campaign of Descamps, France. In 2014 she was awarded the NNDA Comstock Innovator of the Year Award for her arts and community work at St Mary’s Art Center, in Virginia City, Nevada.

Melhop’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide. She works in photography, stitching, printmaking, installation and oil paint, exploring the tensions between the virtual and physical ways we experience the world.

Melhop has taught Printmaking, Drawing, Photography, Introduction to the Arts, and Visual Foundations at University of Nevada, Reno, and local colleges in Nevada. She completed her MFA at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

In 2020 she opened the contemporary art gallery, Melhop Gallery º7077, at Lake Tahoe, Nevada representing 12 national and international artists, while guest curating exhibitions around the west of the USA.