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Instructor's Site: Melanie Stewart

Melanie Stewart has an MFA in Digital Art and New Media from the University of California Santa Cruz, and a BFA in Fine Art from California State University, Stanislaus.

• She is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar and instructor. The range of her undergrad courses is extensive given her interdisciplinary oeuvre. The courses she has taught since 2007 include:
  • Various introduction and advanced web design
  • Color and Design Theory
  • Interdisciplinary courses
  • Scenic Painting for the Theater
  • Technology for Business and Professional Development
  • Studio instruction for Art 2D (Drawing, Painting, Photography)
  • Studio instruction for Art 3D (Sculpture, Casting, Mold Making, Installations)
  • TA ships that include special projects requiring specialized knowledge in the theater and film departments
• Stewart is a conceptual artist who fuses traditional and new media arts. The central ideas in her work speak to an anthropological viewpoint that we as individuals in a culture evolve and de-evolve in the shadows of our technologies more than by our choices.
• Her practice is a convergence of various digital and analog media including: projection, video, photography, print, digital arts, sculpture, and painting as stand alone objects or as full scale installations.

The website (featured right melaniestewart.com) provides a biographical survey of her artworks, aesthetics and teaching methodologies. This site has been growing since the late nineties and she has purposefully de-evolved the site in about 2009 to reflect a stand against constant reinvention. Purposefully she's maintained the original framed structures as was once cutting edge but now technically obsolete. It is a homage to central concept in her art practice, coding roots, and branding aesthetic. Technical features: CSS, Flash, CS4,CS5, CS6 Final Cut, Dreamweaver and hand coding.

Images from her MFA exhibition installation and the abstract for her thesis paper can be found at www.blissomaticsurreal.com. She is currently looking at ways to visually assess student learning, retention, creativity and perspectives in models now being developed and data collections.

For more information, see her LinkedIn profile.

© Melanie Stewart 2009 - 2014