Melanie Morris is an award-winning acrylic painter whose work can be found in galleries across the southeast.  A featured artist in regional and national juried shows, she is often invited to lead painting workshops. 

A native of Mississippi, one of Melanie’s earliest memories is sitting with her mother in the backyard sketching a pear tree.  This fascination with nature is revealed today in her colorful landscapes and florals. 

Melanie has a professional background that includes medical marketing and consumer advertising.  Currently Melanie alternates her time between painting, teaching acrylic workshops and moderating medical education conferences.  A graduate of Mississippi College and the University of Alabama, Melanie is married to novelist Michael Morris (www.michaelmorrisbooks.com) and resides in Birmingham, Alabama. 

 

Awards:

Merit Award - Alabama Art Colony; 2008

August A. Moore Memorial Two Dimensional Purchase Award - 45^th Annual Bluff Park Art Show; 2008

Merit Award - 27th Annual Spring Show - Mountain Brook Art Association; 2008

Merit Award in Oil, Acrylic and Tempera - Eastern Shore Art Center's 36th Annual Outdoor Show; 2008

Purchase Award - 18th Street II, Eastern Shore Art Center's 36th Annual Outdoor Show; 2008

Purchase Award - Approaching Fog, 36th Annual Cellular South GumTree Festival; 2007

Purchase Award - June in Big Sur, 36th Annual Cellular South GumTree Festival; 2007

First Place in Acrylic Painting - 26th Annual Spring Show - Mountain Brook Art Association; 2007

Billboard Artist  -- Highway 1, Birmingham Art Association -- Random Acts of Art; 2006

Second Place in Painting – Battery Guards, Birmingham Art Association – Art in Bloom; 2006

Judge’s Merit Award – Bay Morning, Eastern Shore Art Association Members Juried Show; 2004

Judge’s Merit Award – Juneau Afternoon, Bay Rivers Art Guild Sixth Annual Juried Show; 2003

Best of Show – Blackberry Knoll, Eastern Shore Art Association Members Juried Show; 2003

Honorable Mention – The Side Yard, Visual Art Exchange Landscape Exhibition; 2002

 

Juried Exhibitions:

·     44^th Annual Bluff Park Art Show – Birmingham, AL; 2007

·     The Harding Show – Nashville, TN; 2008

• Spotlight on Art – Atlanta, GA;  2008

·     Eastern Shore Art Center's 36th Annual Outdoor Show – Fairhope, AL; 2008

·     33^rd Annual Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival – Pensacola, FL; 2007

·     44^th Annual Bluff Park Art Show – Birmingham, AL; 2007

·    The Wonders of Alabama Art - 8^th Annual Energen Art Competition; Birmingham, AL

·    36^th Annual Cellular South GumTree Festival – Tupelo, MS; 2007

·    Eastern Shore Art Center's 35th Annual Outdoor Show – Fairhope, AL; 2007

·     2004 Eastern Shore Members Juried Show; Fairhope, AL

·     2003 Progress Energy Florida Invitational Juried Competition & Exhibition; Perry, FL

·     Bay Rivers Art Guild Sixth Annual Juried Show; Daphne, AL

·     2003 Eastern Shore Members Juried Show; Fairhope, AL

·     Bay Rivers Art Guild Fifth Annual Juried Show; Daphne, AL

·     2002 Annual Florida Invitational Fine Art Juried Competition & Exhibition; Perry, FL

·     Visual Art Exchange Landscape Exhibition, Raleigh, NC

·     Fine Arts League of Cary 8^th Annual Juried Artists Exhibition; Cary, NC

·     The Women’s Center 18^th Annual Juried Exhibition; Chapel Hill, NC

·     North Carolina State Fair Juried Exhibition; Raleigh, NC

·     Twenty-Third Annual Raleigh Fine Art Society Juried Artists Exhibition; Raleigh, NC

·     Visual Art Exchange Painting and Pottery Juried Exhibition; Raleigh, NC

 

Group and Solo Exhibitions:

Spotlight – Grovewood Gallery; Asheville, NC; 2008

 

Huntsville Museum of Art Gala; Huntsville, AL; 2008

 

Inside the Box – Lyons Share Gallery; Fairhope, AL 2007

 

Mountain Brook Art Association's 26th Annual Spring Show - Mountain Brook, AL ; 2007

        

Jubilee of Artists – Lyons Share Gallery; Fairhope, AL; 2006

 

The World Around Us - Artists' Perspective -- AmSouth Harbert Plaza; Birmingham, AL; 2006

 

New Works by Howell, Howell and Morris – Bay Rivers Art Guild; Daphne, AL; 2004

 

Fairhope Light – Shorty Cates’ Lifestyle Gallery; Fairhope, AL; 2003 (Solo)

 

Paint the Town – Eastern Shore Art Center; Fairhope, AL; 2003

 

Fairhope Crew – Artworks; Laurel, MS; 2003

 

Vivid: An Exploration of Color – Cat Banjo; Raleigh, NC; 2002

 

Per La Mare/By the Sea - Nicole’s Studio & Gallery; Raleigh, NC; 2002

 

Opening Night - The Red Canvas, Apex, NC; 2001 

 

Selected Collections:

Energen Corporation; Birmingham, AL

Peace College; Raleigh, NC 

 

Selected Publications:

Birmingham Sketchbook; Indigo Press; November 2007

 

Birmingham Arts Journal; Volume 3 – Issue 3; Winter 2007

 

The Anniston Star “Acrylic Workshop Begins Monday at Buckner Arts Center” – Anniston, AL; June 2006

 

Mobile Register “Mississippi Native to Hold Her First Fairhope Art Show” – Mobile, AL; November 2003 

 

Raleigh News & Observer “What’s Up” Featured Painting: August 2002

 

The Cary News “From Artists to Gallery Owners” - Cary, NC; November 2001

 

Education:

University of Alabama; Tuscaloosa, AL

Master of Arts: Communication with emphasis on Advertising  

Mississippi College; Clinton, MS

Bachelor of Arts: Mass Media Communication and Graphic Design  

Additional Art Education

Peace College – Raleigh, NC

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC

Duke University – Durham, NC 

Workshops:

Nan Cunningham – Daphne, AL

Tom Browning – Tuscaloosa, AL

James Kerr – Banner Elk, NC

Toni Cappel – Raleigh, NC

John Stanford – Havana, FL