Melissa Green is an Oregon-based artist, printmaker, museum and environmental educator, college faculty, and a creative community engagement designer.
Formerly, Executive Director of ArtReach and Community Gallery in Washington, D.C., Director of Community Partnerships at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Executive Director of ArtReach at George Washington University- Green led museum and college-based programs which provided studio-based arts education and community arts engagement with communities in Washington, DC.
Green designs environmental and art engaged projects working with The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery, the National Park Service, District Department of Energy and the Environment, Art in Embassies, and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education. Her program was selected for the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities first lady’s annual service project working with Michelle Obama on a youth mural project and was awarded the Mayor’s Arts Award for Innovation in the Arts.
Green received her Masters of Arts in Teaching from the Corcoran College of Art + Design. She taught graduate and undergraduate community and museum arts engagement at George Washington University and Corcoran College of Art + Design. She currently teaches at the University of Oregon and is the Creative Engagement Designer at Cascades Raptor Center.
She has a passion for forging authentic connections in creative, meaningfully engaged, environmentally responsive, and accessible placemaking initiatives.