Melissa D. Johnston Art

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  • Mira Mobile Prize 2020

    Mira Mobile Prize 2020

    I’m so excited and honored to have “the weight of hearts” selected as one of 150 images projected at the Mira Mobile Prize 2020 Exhibition in Porto, Portugal (!). The exhibition opened last night, June 19, and will run for one month at the Mira Forum in Porto. Mira also did a Facebook Live during Read more

  • we build with what we can: the process

    we build with what we can: the process

    I have some work coming out soon in a chapbook and I was asked by the editor to show some of my work in process in video footage. I no longer had almost any images from the stages of the work I had submitted to them. But I had a few images from the process Read more

  • Winner of “All Colors of the World” Challenge

    Winner of “All Colors of the World” Challenge

    So excited to have my piece “we build with what we can” named this month among the twenty winners of the international mobile art challenge “All Colors of the World.” Our work will be part of the “All Colors of the World” exhibition in Cagliari, Italy at the MEM Mediateca del Mediterraneo. Because of Covid-19, Read more

  • Looking back at 2019

    Looking back at 2019

    The past couple of years I’d not been able to focus on art as much because I started a new business (a Pilates studio). However, 2019 was highlighted by two things that meant a lot to me art-wise. The first was getting published in (and on the cover of!) ONLY magazine and the second was Read more

  • My Art Featured in Horizons Magazine

    My Art Featured in Horizons Magazine

    I am so honored to have my art featured recently in Horizons magazine. I’m a little late posting–I’ve been super busy during the first part of the year–but I plan to be a lot more diligent in the coming months. I hope everyone is having a beautiful summer! Read more

  • Instead of the Scheduled Run…Play with Fog and Sun

    Instead of the Scheduled Run…Play with Fog and Sun

    I laced up my shoes this morning to do a short run and found everything covered once again (like it is so often in October/November) in a beautiful, gauzy mist, slightly heavier than usual. So I ended up taking a leisurely photographic walk up the road as the sun came up–and finished with a super Read more