Melissa H Potter is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited in venues and film festivals internationally. Potter has been the recipient of three Fulbright Scholar awards, as well as local, national, and international funding to conduct socially-engaged projects with ethnographers, academics, scientists, and artists. After more than 12 years as a nonprofit director at various arts institutions in NYC, she moved to Chicago to become a professor at Columbia College Chicago, where she directed the graduate program in Book & Paper and now teaches in the School of Visual Arts. Her critical essays have been printed in BOMB, Art Papers, Flash Art, and Hand Papermaking, among others. She has an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, University and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.