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Melissa Jay Craig
Chicago, Illinois
Passage
Juror’s Entry
Cast and hand-shaped kozo, abaca, and flax; various dyes. Sewn to hemp cords. 9 x 5.5 x 3.5 inches, 23 x 14 x 9 centimeters. Created 2009.
Melissa Jay Craig’s handmade paper book works and sculptures are exhibited internationally; she also makes installation works. She has been involved with the
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts since its beginning and has taught in Columbia’s Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts MFA degree
program since 1996, where she has been the full-time teaching artist-in-residence since 2001. Melissa holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
where she was awarded a Trustee’s Full Merit Scholarship and an Anna Louise Raymond traveling fellowship. Melissa has been awarded numerous grants and residencies,
including several consecutive residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and recent full fellowships at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center,
Catwalk, Jentel, and the Artists’ Enclave at I-Park. She is a current recipient of a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts studio residency and grant at
Women’s Studio Workshop, where she will be working in the papermaking studio on a new series of works begun during a Columbia research grant to Scotland and
the islands of Orkney and Lewis in 2008. Website at web.mac.com/melissajaycraig
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