Melissa Harshman received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1992. She has taught at the Lamar Dodd School of Art since 1993. Harshman has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. She was awarded a UGA Senior Faculty Research Grant in 2019 titled “Explorations in Papermaking”. She is one of the inaugural Art Lab Fellowship recipients from the University of Georgia for 2022/23 focusing on papermaking wall installations. Her work was recently on display at the Hunderton Art Museum in Clinton, NJ in “Press +”.  Upcoming exhibitions include “When Print meets Paper” at the Robert C. Williams Museum of papermaking in Atlanta, GA and a solo exhibition at PaperWorkers Local in Birmingham, Alabama. She recently completed the Denbo Fellowship at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center in Hyattsville, MD focusing on handmade paper. She recently displayed work at the Impact 12 International Printmaking Conference in Bristol, England in September of 2022