Melissa Webb is a fiber artist, educator, and independent curator working in the areas of site-specific installation, video, performance, and photography. She holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Over her nearly 30-year career, Melissa has presented her work at numerous arts institutions, galleries, and festivals such as the Cranbrook Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, School 33 Art Center, Vis-Arts Rockville, ‘sindikit projects, the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) Baltimore, The Rotating History Project, Maryland Art Place, and with the Detroit Month of Design, Philadelphia Fringe, Transmodern, and Artscape Festivals.
Melissa maintains a practice of mounting immersive, site-responsive installation works in historically significant architectural spaces. Ambitious in scale as well as detail, her work has engaged diverse audiences in places such as the Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House in Michigan, the Stanford White-designed Lovely Lane United Methodist Church in Baltimore, and at Clermont Farm, a former 1755 slave plantation owned by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Residencies include ACRE in Wisconsin, Oxbow in Saugatuck, Michigan, and Prairie Ronde in Vicksburg, Michigan. She has been the recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant, a Cranbrook Academy of Art Director’s Fellowship, a Baker Foundation project grant, and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Sculpture. Melissa is from Baltimore, Maryland, and currently resides in Metro Detroit.