Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Scotts Valley Public Library, Scotts Valley CA
2020
Prints, Paintings & More – Sereno Group, Santa Cruz CA
2018
Melissa West: Printmaker – Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz CA
2017
Steamed Up! – Michaelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
2014
Art in the Library – Napa County Library, Main Branch, Napa CA
2013
Dreaming in Color – Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, Santa Cruz CA
2012
A Long Road in the Sun – Michaelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
2011
Signs & Wonders – The Abbey Coffee Lounge, Santa Cruz CA
2010
Transported – Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, Santa Cruz CA
Fairy Tales – Simpkins Swim Center, Santa Cruz CA
2009
Collateral – Michaelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
Inked – Seabright Storefront Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
2008
Bay Area Landscapes – Embarcadero Branch, Oakland Public Library, Oakland CA
2007
Paso a Paso: Prints from the Camino de Santiago – Rockridge Public Library, Oakland CA
California Landscapes – Mill Valley Community Center, Mill Valley CA
Public Art
2025
Follow Your Heart – Utility Art Box sponsored by the City of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Pride 50th Anniversary
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Human – ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA
To Life! – 1202 Contemporary Gallery, Gilroy CA
Hers, His, Theirs, Ours: Queer Expression!– Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville CA
2024
Climate Crisis – Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz CA
Artistic Crossroads: California Visions – Luna Gallery, San Juan Bautista CA
Look Me In the Eye – Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz CA
2023
A Visual Journey – Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville CA
2022
12x12x12 – Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos CA
Agents of Change: A Collaborative Poet Laureate Art & Poetry Project – Santa Cruz Public Library, Santa Cruz CA
Pathways – Art Ark, San Jose CA
2021
Art On the Edge: From Extraction to Restoration and Regeneration – Peninsula Museum of Art, San Bruno CA
450 Pieces – Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
Traces – Danville Art Gallery, Danville CA
2020
Women Eco Artists Dialog: The Legacy of Jo Hanson – Yolo Arts, The Barn Gallery, Woodland CA
2019
Human/Nature – Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz CA
Vote! Your Vote is Your Voice – Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville CA
2018
Climart – Academy of Art University Cannery Galleries, San Francisco CA
SPOKEN/UNSPOKEN: Art as Response/Artist as Catalyst – Porter College Faculty Gallery, UCSC, Santa Cruz CA
2017
Local Artists Present – Salud Para la Gente, Watsonville CA
California Society of Printmakers 104th Annual Exhibit – Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont CA
2016
Ink | Paper | Print – Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
PRINTED! – Santa Cruz Public Library, Santa Cruz CA
Print Mint – The JanRae Community Art Gallery at Women’s Cancer Resource Center, Oakland CA
California Society of Printmakers 103rd Annual Exhibit – Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont CA
2015
Streams, Rivers, Bay to Sea: Water, An Essential Element – Michaelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
Pressing Matters VI – San Geronimo Valley Community Center, San Geronimo CA
Of Ink and Poetry – Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove CA
2014
Pressing Matters V – San Geronimo Valley Community Center, San Geronimo CA
Printmaking On & Off the Wall – Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville CA
Impressed: The Printed Mark – Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
2013
Only Lino – Michaelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
Myths, Lies, & Legends – Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
2012
California Centered – Merced Multicultural Arts Center, Merced CA
Traces, Marks, and Fragments – San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo CA
4th Annual 50-50 Show – Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
Interior Monologues: Views into the Artist’s Mind – Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville CA
2011
The MPC Printmakers in Moss Landing: New Work at La Galeria – La Galeria Gallery, Moss Landing CA
Multiples – Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA
Inked Up – Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
Multiples – Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville CA
2010
Los Pajaros – Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville CA
(Untitled) – Santa Cruz County Government Building, Santa Cruz CA
2009
In Memoriam: Women’s Lives Taken by Violence – Signature Salon, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda CA
Beasts on Broadway – Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz CA
2007
Visual Voices – ArtworkSF Gallery, San Francisco CA
2006
Conversations with the Goddess – Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda CA
Art Hell – ArtworkSF Gallery, San Francisco CA
Catching the Light – Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda CA
Other Worlds, Other Realms – Hotel Triton, San Francisco CA
Conversations in Color: Monochrome – Polarity Post Productions, San Francisco CA
2005
19th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibit – Emeryville CA
Smoke, Lilies & Jade – Women’s Cancer Resource Center Gallery, Oakland CA
The Blues – Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda CA
2004
Works on Paper – Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz CA
18th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibit – Emeryville CA
Mystical, Magical, Mythical – Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda CA
Picture Progress – Trax Gallery Space, Berkeley CA
Arts on Fire – Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
ArtWalk – Embarcadero Center, San Francisco CA
ArtSF 3rd Anniversary Show – ArtSF Gallery, San Francisco CA
Female2 – Balazo Gallery/Mission Badlands, San Francisco CA
We Like It Dirty – Taking the Leap, Heritage Square Building, Emeryville CA
2003
Artists by Nature – Women’s Cancer Resource Center Gallery, Oakland
Woman’s Work – Prescott Joseph Center, Oakland CA
Curation
2025
Hers, His, Theirs, Ours: Queer Epression! – with Jorge Guillen, Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville CA
Teaching
2018 – present Cabrillo College Extension, Aptos CA
Honors & Recognition
2011, 2022
Nominee, Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship, Community Foundation, Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz CA
Film Placement
2004
Bee Season, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Publications
2022
Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine vol. 23, DeAnza College
Porter Gulch Review, 38th edition, Cabrillo College
2018
Love Magic: A Handbook of Spells, Charms, and Potions Anastasia Greywolf, editor, Wellfleet Press
2016
Witchcraft: A Handbook of Magic Spells and Potions Anastasia Greywolf, editor, Wellfleet Press
2011
Pilgrimage Magazine Action & Rest; Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2011
Pilgrimage Magazine Between the Living & the Dead; Volume 35, Issue 3, January 2011
Affiliations
California Society of Printmakers
WEAD, Women Environmental Artists Dialog
Education
1980 B.A. in Studio Art, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA