BIO

Melissa Pickering is a printmaker based in Boulder, CO. She received a BA in Literature from CU Boulder and an MA from Naropa University. She has studied fine art since high school and printmaking since 2008 and was an artist in residence at The Boulder Creative Collective with the 2019-2020 cohort. 

She focuses primarily in abstract nature, inner exploration, and social justice messages using relief and intaglio printmaking techniques, such as monotype, collagraph and chine collé.

See each page in the Gallery for artist statements on each body of work.

CV 

Exhibits and Events: 

  • 2024, Mar 9 - Open Portfolio for Month of Printmaking

    • Denver Botanic Gardens

  • 2024, Jan 18th - Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition

    • Arvada Center in Denver

  • 2023, July-Sept - Assiduous - group show

    • Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder CO

  • 2022, May - Album cover art 

    • Mojo Mama “We Are One”

  • 2021, March - Dark White House plates for Step up to the Plate Fundraiser 

    • Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder CO

  • 2020, August – Echo Chamber - Solo show

    • AKA Gallery, Boulder, CO

  • 2020, August – Fired piece - Annual fundraiser and exhibit 

    • BmoCA, Boulder CO

  • 2020, July - Guest in BMoCA Virtual Artist Studio visit

    • Online

  • 2020, March – Death By Gun, Daily - piece highlighted in Arvada Center’s video on Intaglio  printmaking process.  

    • Online

  • 2020, March - Toxic Passion - collaborative print between Artward + Civilian Art + Talisman Place,  

    • St Printersburg printmaking festival, St Petersburg FL

  • 2020, January – Death By Gun, Daily -  5280 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition 

    • Arvada Center for the Arts, Denver CO

  • 2019-2020, November - Selected for  Artist in Residence program

    • Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder CO

  • 2019, November – Fired - 14 prints selected to be wheat pasted on the side of public buildings, The Big Picture 

    • Denver, CO

  • 2019, October  - Guest Artist - Collagraph Workshop

    • Raritan Valley Community College, Raritan NJ

  • 2019, June  – Death By Gun, Daily -  solo show

    • AKA Gallery, Boulder CO

  • 2019, March - Fired, series 2018 -  limited group show Month of Photography 

    • University of Colorado School of Art, Boulder, CO

  • 2018, September - Instructor, Collagraph workshop

    • Boulder, CO

  • 2018, March - Fired, series 2017 - group show - Month of Printmaking 

    • Edge Gallery, Denver, CO 

Education: 

  • Studied fine art since high school and printmaking since 2008 and has practiced with printmakers in Denver, New Mexico, and New York.  

  • BA in Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, + fine art electives

  • MA in Business and Leadership, Naropa University, Boulder