Online Artist Talks – Soil to Skin

As part of the ongoing exhibition at Goucher College, I’ll be one of three artists giving a talk and in conversation with the curator, Liz Faust, tomorrow (March 1st) online from 3-4pm. It’ll also be recorded, and I’ll post that link tomorrow.

March 1st 3-4pm EST

Melissa Penley Cormier 

Lynn Cazabon 

Raymond Thompson Jr.

March 28th 3-4pm EST

Rachel Guardiola

Nicole Salimbene

They will be using the platform StreamYard to stream live on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. 

To view: 

Instagram 

Facebook 

Youtube Channel 

Excited to be included in this show at The Monkton Hotel Cafe!

The Monkton Hotel Cafe
1900 Monkton RD
Monkton, MD 21111
(443)-212-5006

The Pollinator Show
July 19th – August 16, 2024

An Exhibition Featuring Artists:
Rebecca Bradley
Melissa Penley Cormier
Tim Phelps
Lauren Schooley

Opening Reception w/ Artist Meet & Greet:
Friday, July 19th 2 – 4PM

Cafe Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Friday, 10AM – 5PM
Saturday – Sunday, 9AM – 5PM

Manor Mill Gallery
1900 Monkton RD
Monkton, MD 21111
manor-mill.com/gallery
gallery@manor-mill.com

Yonder Cabinet at Maryland Art Place

I’ve been so happy to be a part of this project, The Yonder Cabinet. Collaborating with Baltimore artist and designer, Kelley Bell, The Yonder Cabinet invites artists to create dioramas of places they have “visited” in literary works they love. Artists also recorded a short audio clip of them reading a favorite passage from the work.

The first round of artists have been amazing to see work from. I was lucky document their work (photographs & soon video) for the website that Bell designed. We hope to invite more artists soon.

Our work will be on view at Maryland Art Place for the SPARK: A Brave New World? exhibition. Where you can see it in real life!

Also, a video tour by the curator can be found here.

Also additional content from the Yonder Cabinet artists can be found on the website below:

http://theyondercabinet.com

career Q & A: UMBC Magazine

Every so often, we chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. By day, Melissa Penley Cormier, M.F.A ’17, intermedia + digital arts (IMDA), helps faculty and students at UMBC create the graphic pieces they need for presenting their research. By night, she’s building an arts practice that draws from nature and scientific processes. Here, Cormier gives us a peek into her life as an artist.

Read the full article by Jenny O’Grady here:

https://magazine.umbc.edu/career-qa-melissa-penley-cormier-m-f-a-17/

Video Shorts Premier in Butcher’s Hill window theater – Window26

Beach is projected onto a screen inside of a row house window
Digitized and edited copies of my 8mm family films are being shown along with other collected shorts in the window of 26 N Chester St. Baltimore as a response to Covid-19 and also so celebrate the recent SpaceX launch and station docking.
Fireworks projected in window
Fireworks from a family vacation recorded from 8mm film, originally recorded by my great uncle John Overmiller.

Window26 is a small local projection experiment taking place in the front window of Kelley Bell‘s home in Butcher’s Hill, Baltimore. It’s a way of sharing art in a public space that’s intimate yet at a safe distance. 

Time-based media artists of all stripes are invited to submit work for a series of programmed nights of projection this summer. Artists who do not work in time-based media, but have some interesting ideas of how to work with the site are also encouraged to submit ideas.

For more information, as well as templates and guidelines please use the contact form below:

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Learned that my thesis work was collaged into a beautiful webcomic by one of my favorite Baltimore Artists before we ever met. Jim Doran made Gin Rumi from images he shot of my worry slides and “inspired by the Sufi poet and based on something he wrote.” The mashup makes my heart sing in all sorts of ways thinking back on this project and what it meant to devote a year to focus on this collection.  Screen Shot 2019-11-12 at 8.29.47 PM

…on the radio

“field recordings” included in radio show curated by Mollye Bendell at Wave Farm residency

Saturday Afternoon Show: Mollye Bendell (audio)

Jun 23, 2018

Wave Farm artist-in-residence Mollye Bendell, joins host Tom Roe, live in the WGXC Acra Studio to discuss her residency work and general artistic practice, as well as present a program of work by Baltimore artists (where Bendell is based.) The program will include Stephen Bradley’s “The Perfect Storm;” Jason Charney’s “Ausbund;” Melissa Cormier’s field recordings including peepers, cicadas, crickets, rain gutters, and wind chimes; selected poems by Suzie Doogan; Eli Ossip’s “Rockall;” and selected compositions by Timothy Nohe.

This show is similar to the weekday “WGXC Afternoon Show,” but focused on transmission art. Saturday afternoons on WGXC feature Wave Farm Artists-in-Residence, and special guests, who are interviewed on-air, present past and future projects, as well as perform live. For more information on the Wave Farm Residency Program, visit transmissionarts.org/residencies.