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Melissa Melero-Moose
Melissa Melero-Moose is a mixed-media visual artist and Northern Paiute enrolled with the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe. Her work draws from her connection to her Indigenous homelands to share with the viewer about place, identity and memory. Her palette exudes the essence of the Great Basin high desert and her imagery integrates basketry shapes and textures with organic materials like willow and pine nuts and experimental mixtures of acrylic mediums. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Nevada State Museum, Carson City, Nevada; School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Lilley Museum, University of Nevada, Reno; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno and the Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C. Melissa currently lives with her family in Hungry Valley, Nevada working as a professional artist, curator for the Great Basin Native Artists Gallery inside of the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum and a community advisor for the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada.