Melanie Elaine Eng

Experience

 
2024 Operations Coordinator for SCRAP
  • Volunteer outreach strategies and community organizing
  • Training and managing volunteer members in intaking used art materials and creative media
  • Coordinating and scheduling visits of school groups, volunteer services, and public involvement with SCRAP
  • Assistance in SFUSD access programs for neurodivergent students and job placement skills

2024 Artist Laison
  • Website maintenance, copy writing, and administrative help
  • Managing all social media profiles for professional practice
  • Coordinating and scheduling appointments
  • Assisting in pick up and drop off of materials, travel planning

2023 Freelance Marketing Manager 
  • Website maintenance, copy writing, and client outreach strategies
  • Managing all social media profiles for professional pracrtice(Linkedin, Facebook)
  • Event management and programming

2023 Studio Production Associate and Coordinator for Abacus Row
  • Producing in house jewelry with focus on fine beadwork and crystal
  • Managing materials and ordering lists for production
  • Overseeing quality control on inventory and material shipments
  • Processing, client outreach, and fulfillment

2022 Studio Intern for Highpoint Center for Printmaking
  • Editioned Julie Mehretu’s “Corner of Lake and Minnehaha” in partnership with the Walker Art Center. *Studio duties included paper prep, art handling, some machinery skills, and technical skills in screen printing, monoprinting, intaglio, relief, and lithography.
  • Editioned monotypes for Brad Kahlhamer
  • Intensive lithography workshopping with Delita Martin and Chloe Alexander from Black Women of Print
  • Studio co-op monitoring, social media programming, data collection via Salesforce, and research for co-op growth were additional duties

2021-22 Intern and printing associate for Coffee and Cream Press
  • Packaging management, letterpress printing assistance, and retail management

2019 Volunteer in children’s summer programming at Mission Grafica

2017-20 Studio Monitor for Print Media at California College of the Arts

Exhibitions

2022 Hot Off The Press, group exhibition, Main Gallery, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
2020 On My Way Back, solo senior thesis exhibition, Oliver Art Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland

2019 24th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship Awards Exhibition, Isabelle
Percy West Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2018 National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) Accreditation Exhibition,
Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2017 First of All… , Students of Color Coalition 8th Annual Exhibition, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA


Publications

2023     Irrelevant Press’ South Paw Zine
2022    Tiny Splendor’s  Fun Size Anthology
2020    Tiny Splendor’s Garfield and Friends Anthology

Education

2024    SWS May Summer Workshop for Stone Lithography at the Tamarind Institute, Albuqerque, New Mexico

2020    BFA in Printmaking and minor in Visual Studies, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California

2018-19  Study Abroad Program in Printmaking, Osaka University of Art, Osaka, Japan