Curiosities
Melissa McClung
October 8 - October 30
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
Curiosities by Melissa McClung is an exhibit of collages, flipbooks, and moving images from the artist’s cabinet. Melissa made the work from 2020 - 2025, while she was otherwise occupied with teaching, animating for a feature documentary, resting, growing a human, laboring, breastfeeding, mothering, dreaming of her next film project, dreaming of a better world, walking in the woods, distance running, swimming in rivers and oceans, and connecting with creative friends.
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Melissa McClung (she/her) is a filmmaker, animator, and visual artist based in Hadley, MA. Melissa has above-the-line credits on films that have premiered at SXSW, CPH:DOX, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Maryland Film Festival, among many others. Melissa began making collages during the pandemic while listening to Agatha Christie audiobooks. In her multidisciplinary work, she often finds herself gravitating towards themes of childhood, wonder, women/mothers, and nature, with imaginative retro-scifi motifs. She makes work in New England, solo and with regional collaborators.
In addition to her creative work, Melissa co-owns Ghost Hit Recording Studio in West Springfield with her husband, audio engineer Andrew Oedel. Melissa earned her MFA in Film from Vermont College of Fine Arts and her BA from Vassar College. Melissa is the recipient of Vassar’s 2024 W.K. Rose Fellowship. She has taught in the Department of Art at UMass Amherst, and she is currently a Professor of the Practice in the Film, Media, and Communications Department at Wheaton College in Norton, MA.