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Author: Melanie Pankau Melanie Pankau

Melanie Pankau is a visual artist and arts administrator. For over 20 years, Pankau has held positions in the arts at various galleries, museums, and foundations. She has been the Associate Coordinator for the MCAD Gallery, the MCAD–Jerome Fellowships for Early Career Artists, and McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship programs since 2016. Pankau received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1999, her MFA from the University of WI-Milwaukee in 2011, and studied at the Bauhaus Universtät in 1998. She is a practicing artist exhibiting both regionally and nationally. Pankau is a recipient of a Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Community Arts Assistance Program Grant and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her work is represented by McCormick Gallery in Chicago.

Person hanging in cocoon of braided fabric with only legs and crossed arms visible
1Prerna, Stretched, 2021.
Design Visual Art
5-29-2024

Prerna: Bureaucracy and Superstition

Melanie Pankau
Person sitting reading a book with pillow with sewn arms wrapping around them
1Zoe Cinel and Gretchen Gasterland-Gustaffson, Rest With Me, 2022.
Design Visual Art
4-24-2024

Zoe Cinel: Sharing and Healing

Melanie Pankau
Group of people sit around dining room table, working with clay.
1Peng Wu, Ceramic Sunday, 2020. "One session of the Ceramic Sunday hosted on my dinner table, a free clay workshop for queer and immigrant friends almost every Sunday since June 2022."
Design Visual Art
5-9-2023

Peng Wu: Many Ways of Making Home

Melanie Pankau
Large colorful projection on side of building at night, with bike racks and tree.
1Moira (Miri) Villiard, Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard, 2021.
Design Visual Art
4-28-2023

Moira Villiard: People and Space

Melanie Pankau
Photograph of farmland with a sculpture of a bear inside of an old corn crib
1Sarah Sampedro, Bear, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
Visual Art
6-1-2022

Sarah Sampedro: Interpersonal Spaces

Melanie Pankau
Black and white photo of a dark skinned person cut off at the waist, standing next to a fish tank with an anatomical heart floating in water.
1KOBI, Foolish (Illusion of Healing Book) , 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
Visual Art
5-27-2022

KOBI: Reflecting to Heal

Melanie Pankau
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