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Payments Accepted:PayPal

Languages Spoken:English, Russian

Associations:Art, Mela M. paintings, Mela M. drawings, Mela M.Exhibitions. Mela M. Drawing and painting Class, Mela M. Private Painting & Drawings Lessens

Awards:Awards & Grants: 2006 Durfee Foundation, 2005 UICA Portal Spaces Solo Show Winner, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and National Endowment for the Arts, Crocker Art Museum, Crocker Kingsley Exhibition Award, 2004 First Award Prize Winner Coos Art Museum OR, New American Painting 2004 & 2008 Competitions, 2003 National Competition 5-person Show Winner, B. J. Spoke Gallery, Selected by Susan Cross, curator of Guggenheim Museum, Huntington NY, National Juried Competition, 2-person Gallery II Show Winner, Phoenix Gallery, juried by curator Lilian Tone, New York Museum of Modern Art, Department of Painting and Sculpture, NY, LA Artcore, 20th Competition Third Place Winner.

Certifications:Adjunct Art Professor (Figure Drawing, Drawing, Painting)

Other Information:Mela M. work has been seen at Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon, Santa Monica Museum of Art in Santa Monica, California and the Urban Museum of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Museum of Contemporary Art Minsk, Belarus, Riverside Art Museum, Duke University, Bryan University Center, Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Claremont Graduate University,Western Oregon University, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada,Santa Barbara City College,Riverside Community College,University of Redlands,Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Colony Gallery Birmingham UK, B.J. Spoke Gallery New York, Patricia Faure Gallery S. Monica Ca., and other exhibition spaces.