Melissa Sclafani

Melissa Sclafani is an Assistant Professor & Gallery Director in the Department of Art & Design at Fort Lewis College. She received her BFA in sculpture from SUNY New Plaza in 2009 and her MFA in Sculpture and Post-Studio Practice from the Univerisity of Colorado at Boulder in 2018. Ms. Sclafani’s work manifests in sculpture, installation, and performance often integrating all three together. She uses her background in traditional sculpture techniques, journalism, and gender studies to generate a relationship between labor intensive process, interaction, and social constructions. Affect, queer and feminist theories have framed the conceptual side of her practice and she explores more how breaking down (emotionally, institutionally, systematically) can cause radical change. She is interested in creating work that sparks conversation, getting herself and the viewer to think more, talk more, work together, and hopefully, do more.