Past Resident
Melanie Manos
Melanie Manos is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, lens-based media and installation, utilizing her body in absurd and precarious actions to convey everyday implications of economic insecurity and gender bias. She’s a recipient of the Kresge Arts Award for Live Art and a Knight Arts Challenge Grant. Manos is a Janie Paul Collegiate Lecturer at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, a 2022 Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Fellow and a 2023 Arts Initiative Public Art & Engagement Fellow.
Manos holds a BA from UCLA, and an MFA from University of Michigan where she’s currently working with the Center for Academic Innovation to create webAR for “Visualizing Women’s Work.” Her massive open online course (MOOC) “Visualizing Women’s Work: Using Art Media for Social Justice” is available free on Coursera.
Manos has performed and exhibited internationally and collaborates with Sarah Buckius as The ManosBuckius Cooperative focusing on labor and the human/technology interface; “MBC” videos have played in video/electronic festivals globally in over 22 countries.
