About

Melissa Shaak is a Somerville, MA artist working in video as well as acrylics and mixed media on paper. She is a member of AgX Film Collective and Brickbottom Artists Association. She was a core member of Fountain Street Gallery in Boston’s SoWa Art + Design District from 2019 - 2024. Her studio is located at River Street Artists/Waltham Mills.

Melissa has exhibited work at Fountain Street Gallery, Beacon Gallery, Piano Craft Gallery, Concord Art, Brickbottom Gallery, The Umbrella Arts Center, and The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center.

Melissa has done coursework at Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Mass College of Art, and has completed residencies at NG Art Creative Residency in Provence, France, and Vermont Studio Center. She has studied with artists Adria Arch and Robert Siegelman and video creator Michael Sheridan, and is a longstanding member of the Creativity Lab at the New Art Center.

Before taking up artmaking full time, Melissa was a senior administrator at Babson College.

Email: melissajshaak@gmail.com

Instagram: @melissajshaak