Melissa Yes is an artist, this is Yes Media. Projects include video, installation, painting, sculpture, and being a neighbor.

Melissa Yes is an American busy with media consumption and production. She was born in Texas, raised in Alabama, and educated in Ohio, where she earned an MFA in Sculpture and Expanded Practice from The Ohio State University. After completing the degree in 2017, Yes returned to her home state where she works as the Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Alabama. Her recent honors include an Alabama State Council on the Arts Media/Photography Fellowship and an award from the Verdant Fund, a re-granting program of the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Yes exhibits nationally while prioritizing projects that connect to communities in Alabama. She notices how Americana materializes in TV, film, literature, art, and music, and how its tropes influence the stories we Americans tell about ourselves and our country. She rips and remixes these media into objects and videos, adding tracks of personal stories like crumb trails from human life to media spectacle and back again.

Yes also sustains a curatorial practice through Vinegar, a nonprofit organization she co-founded in 2019 that curates expanded art projects in Birmingham. Her roles as artist, curator, teacher, and neighbor work in concert with one another. It’s all one song.

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My life goal is to be better at email. message@yesmedia.email