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Melanie Grishman is a fiber artist who uses quilting and traditional fiber techniques. Often quilting is combined with hand embroidery, beading, found objects to create a wall hanging or sculptural form. After working in the fiber arts doing embroidery and sewing since childhood, she studied art at UCLA’s Art Studio in Santa Monica, CA and has taken numerous studio classes. Her professional education was in social work, but since retiring from the Department of Veterans Affairs, where she was a social work administrator, she has devoted herself to the fiber arts. She has designed and executed in fiber numerous articles to enhance the celebration of the holidays in the synagogue and at home. She is a member of ArtSites, The Guild for Judaic Art and the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework. Several articles have been published in The Paper Pomegranate, the Publication of the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework, featuring her original designs. Her work entitled “City Scape” which was part of the “Dreaming the Garden” exhibition was published in Quilting Arts Magazine, Spring 2004.
Her work has been exhibited at VisArts, Rockville, MD 2009; Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA, 2007; Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD, 2007; C. William Gilchrist Museum of the Arts and the Culinary School in Cumberland, Maryland, 2007; Columbia Art Center in Columbia, MD, 2002 & 2007; The Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY in 2006; National Small Art Quilt Works Exhibition; The Quilters Hall of Fame, Marion, Indiana in “How does Your Garden Grow”; Strathmore Hall, North Bethesda, MD in “The Crafts Collection 2003, 2007 & 2009”; Visions IX - International Juried Art Exhibit, The Cathedral Foundation, Inc., Covington, KY, 2005; “Holiday Art: So Jewish”, JCC, Baltimore, MD, 2005; The New England Quilt Museum, “Quilted Cuisine” 2004; Agnon Fine Arts and Crafts Show, Cleveland, Ohio, 2004; International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas, 2003; and the Jewish Museum, Kansas City, Kansas, “Bless This House”, 2003. She is a member of Tikvat Israel Congregation in Rockville, MD.
