Melissa Vogley Woods (she/her) born and living in the Midwest in Columbus, Ohio, USA

Melissa Vogley Woods (she/her) is a multi-generational caregiver and multidisciplinary visual artist, educator born and residing in Columbus, Ohio. Her work delves into the intricacies of care within relationships with a specific focus on barriers and how we bridge them through the romanticization and utilization of plants. She was nominated for the National USA Fellowship, received two Ohio Art Council Individual Artist Grants and Greater Columbus Artist Grant and has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally in such institutions as Wexner Center, Columbus Museum of Art, Raskolnikov Galerie, Dresden,Germany, Museum of Sisters Aslamazyan in Armenia, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Museum of art and the Columbus Public Libraries. She attended Mass MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Projects Residencies and her work has been written about in the Brooklyn Rail. She is a community arts organized with recent projects, including "Lobby," a series of three-person exhibitions held in a Planned Parenthood Surgical Center and "Tracers'' a series of feminist events and exhibitions that included public panels, workshops, and "Room to Let" exhibition series held in donated houses that exhibited 73 artists over three years of programming.

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