https://www.melpotter.com/home daily 0.75 2018-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524169919691-QMERZ8F1HBVIT49PU8FV/Website+Front.jpg Home https://www.melpotter.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://www.melpotter.com/homeland daily 0.75 2019-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1579307176025-KYXZOYGZ8AQN85FKSZ58/0075.JPG Homeland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1447772625806-Q5OO8ELW09SJPT5SQ23Q/Dorijan-31.jpg Homeland Dorijan Kolundzija, artist and curator discusses the Serbian Millennial response to a war culture they never experienced firsthand. Image of graffiti in Dorčol, Belgrade by Melissa Potter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1447772696611-B1MLPLU6P6X9S5G5R853/Pavich-22.jpg Homeland Matt Pavich, 2nd Generation Serbian-American, talks about the atmosphere in Belgrade during the NATO bombing of the city. 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Photo: Melissa Hilliard Potter https://www.melpotter.com/social-paper-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383754157459-842NO8WAYRQMXDZ0GB7S/37895+Social+Paper+Postcard-r2_Page_3.jpg Social Paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524104137211-0338R7DNUDZLME07KWQC/Posters_Final_SP_Page_1.jpg Social Paper https://www.melpotter.com/speculative-gardens-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1545189077033-6PSNVV2SY1YUECFEIXOI/IMG_3678.jpg Speculative Gardens for Papermaking https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1545189077166-3MTOYMMC9UU7WMFJ5TJL/IMG_3705.jpg Speculative Gardens for Papermaking https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1545189080495-Z81AZLNVHJSYBLANJ511/IMG_3716.jpg Speculative Gardens for Papermaking https://www.melpotter.com/food-sex-death daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1495116808226-RM7HLXEG5HZXY6D6KRIK/01_A_Man_Can_Catch_You+copy.jpg Food, Sex & Death Menu from Food, Sex & Death in The Papermaker’s Garden, 2016 Front: Letterpress on handmade potato vine paper Back: Inkjet on handmade potato vine paper 5 x 7 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1495116648511-6QDV2BXQV4SFR77SBOEW/06_Potter_HullHouseWageMapsBrothels.jpg Food, Sex & Death Handmade paper (sunflower and corn stalk), ink 80 x 36 inches (each) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1495116653896-QHALGPWR9LQ8820Q1NO9/07_Potter_FoodSexDeath.jpg Food, Sex & Death Food, Sex & Death performance in the Papermaker's Garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1447771953849-RZZPEIDFVRYPZ2RN6ZFA/image-asset.jpeg Food, Sex & Death Food, Sex & Death event in the Papermaker's Garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1387657643803-97I1ZM893D029EESX1SI/IMG_1898.JPG Food, Sex & Death Letterpress printing paper with fiber from Fresh Press, Illinois. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1495116662070-XARJKEM8WQJB7QEXOYB5/08_Potter_SexWorkIsWork.jpg Food, Sex & Death Sex Work Is Work: an intake log of all the paper grown for my artwork in the Papermaker’s Garden considering the history of the 65 brothels identified by Hull House wage map workers in that location. The offset edition included is a four-part narrative based on research conducted at the Hull House, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, The Chicago Homicide Database, and Columbia College Chicago archives.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1495116679031-G5FGXZ77RXV2QZUTV1BF/09_Potter_SexWorkIsWork1.jpg Food, Sex & Death https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1495116683214-9NLRXMJFR3I3O13I9D53/10_Potter_SexWorkIsWork2.jpg Food, Sex & Death https://www.melpotter.com/feminist-felt-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842646524-1SAYBK74JHAG6LPLDMM0/Equal2.jpg Feminist Felt Equal Pay for Equal Work, designed with Ida Bakhturidze, Miriam Schaer, Nana Magradze, and Clifton Meador https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1548706731333-F0AYR8CUGA30UJK3Z8SP/Feminist+Felt+-+lg+-reduced.jpg Feminist Felt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842642571-IAC9ZVQTT9FTH61T7H1O/CreditUnion.jpg Feminist Felt Melissa Potter and Ida Bakhturidze in a Georgian village credit union. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842660799-3374UHGZO03P8EF3ZF57/NoViolence.jpg Feminist Felt No Violence, designed by Ida Bakhturidze and an Alvani workshop participant in handmade felt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842663583-Q1XIDF17WJZN3BZOSRT3/NoViolence2.jpg Feminist Felt Ida Bakhturidze and Melissa Potter in front of the Alvani school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842659448-T7M8OD1THXNOUZNR2QL9/MyBodyMyChoice.jpg Feminist Felt My Body, My Choice, designed by Ida Bakhturidze and Melissa Potter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842646020-SPH0K8PZTXRFXHBJU46D/DownWithPatriarchy.jpg Feminist Felt Listen to Women! Designed by Independent Group of Feminists members in Tbilisi, Georgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842673276-Q5BX1RVN78E89D35K9UW/WomensRights.jpg Feminist Felt Women's Rights are Human Rights, designed by Ida Bakhturizde https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842671229-KD2PXM3715QLOMEXTL1O/WomensDaycomposite.jpg Feminist Felt Tbilisi's first International Women's Day march with banners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842641711-VEGTWEMS8PCF0QMRVOU2/Chenciner.jpg Feminist Felt From the collection of ethnographer, Robert Chenciner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842667257-N7H9VL16TZZBA3SPJXZ0/TushetiImages.jpg Feminist Felt Women in Alvani share their Tusheti traditional design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842665715-4S9DOP2QWHIB574Q28H9/TheAvengers.jpg Feminist Felt Ida Bakhturidze, Melissa Potter and Miriam Schaer at the Georgian border of Daghestan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842654796-9FOBJKBUTQ81P6LFAKSN/JerseyDevil.jpg Feminist Felt Jersey Devil felt mask, designed by Melissa Potter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842656289-QIHZLI1FKDPPO0WNLO3C/MaskSelfie.jpg Feminist Felt Ida Bakhturidze wearing bunny mustache mask designed by Melissa Potter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842651774-HAUGZ84H14JEH3F6649P/FeministMask.jpg Feminist Felt Women's Fund in Georgia founder, Nana Pantsulaia and her feminist mask. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842668993-89LYERG0M1ZBF7U167VL/VirginityProtest.jpg Feminist Felt Felted masked activism at protests against virginity testing in Tbilisi. https://www.melpotter.com/university-of-chicago-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299846249-I7D0DC70RNII1WELONBY/IMG_3374.JPG University of Chicago Milkweed paper, sourced from Lurie Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299650223-WL9TZLIN55KOL1HTWBDC/Poster_EndTales.jpg University of Chicago End Tales: Recounting and Retrieving the Altered Worlds event poster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299698283-GJYRZQGEGDQJ55S4TGOF/46712867_10156300188137599_379252247961272320_o.jpg University of Chicago Students from University of Chicago work at the papermaking studio, Columbia College Chicago with Melissa H Potter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299698333-NWE5CD5I54HMHG7GWH6J/46767548_10156300197892599_4154299433359507456_o.jpg University of Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299699486-RQAJ9DQZGCEF3YV69XXW/46772792_10156300187012599_8142405983373623296_o.jpg University of Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299699535-JPIVD94ZEY9MDVNUAXMX/46819137_10156300186767599_116267504891854848_o.jpg University of Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299700319-UX11G4LF5XWHC9ZX9LLT/46860494_10156300189522599_3274963815044743168_o.jpg University of Chicago Master printer, Chris Flynn, Columbia College Chicago. https://www.melpotter.com/invisible-makers-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1474819091135-4TY7WQ3846P2K5LQ2DOF/Cover.jpg Invisible Makers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1474819094731-7PNMN4YY65N85G1OH3BD/Hildegard.jpg Invisible Makers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1474819099439-M1C41WFPHTKW67IAKBJD/NicholasHilliard.jpg Invisible Makers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1474819103085-BEP07TE914IAPBZC2LPB/Lin.jpg Invisible Makers https://www.melpotter.com/international-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383867902845-CKH759R8NFCYTJWRZHM6/SF-+%2810%29.jpg International Making Amazonian fibers for paper at the Taller Intensivo el Libro y Papel in Caracas, Venezuela. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1507168103960-SDCRABWA04WPGGLDJP5T/2015-05-12+18.10.31.jpg International Pulp and Pastry performance, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo with Adam Pantic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544491973103-CB3VN3UT6R7I1XWMCU0A/HPIM6822.JPG International A papermaking demonstration for the Umetnicka skola in Nis, Serbia. Over the course of ten years and through Fulbright funding, I traveled extensively throughout the country with Biljana Vukovic, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade, to offer demonstrations on this little-known medium. https://www.melpotter.com/my-country-is-the-world-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1452014590803-7CLXUV8I8KMPNB1FSCQY/IMG_2265.JPG My Country is the World The letter, seen below, being read by her nephew at her home in Grapska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524104605289-YVQSWWEBEXF8EKWFNP38/Zejna001_Page_5.jpg My Country is the World Photolithography of the letter Zejna wrote from a Croatian refugee camp, superimposed on a portrait of my grandmother. https://www.melpotter.com/handmade-media-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1548788897971-UOK2HU4CM83YNNINK9IN/16%2BPotter_Craft_Power_Tusheti_Rug-sm.jpg Handmade Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1548788897872-ZFAA98LWC96RNFA4OCWZ/15%2BPotter_Craft_Power_Tusheti_Rug-sm.jpg Handmade Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1384188332263-V1S6S3D6TZHPP6Q7990I/17+Potter_Craft_Power_Tusheti_Rug.jpg Handmade Media https://www.melpotter.com/homeland-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1447772625806-Q5OO8ELW09SJPT5SQ23Q/Dorijan-31.jpg Homeland Dorijan Kolundzija, artist and curator discusses the Serbian Millennial response to a war culture they never experienced firsthand. Image of graffiti in Dorčol, Belgrade by Melissa Potter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1447772696611-B1MLPLU6P6X9S5G5R853/Pavich-22.jpg Homeland Matt Pavich, 2nd Generation Serbian-American, talks about the atmosphere in Belgrade during the NATO bombing of the city. Photo of a mural depicting the Montenegrian coast at the Serbian American Museum, Chicago by Mat Rappaport https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1447772756506-R5ZAGJMXQ7M5N1BYNRX7/Branko1.jpg Homeland Branislav Dmitrijević, curator and critic, discusses work by Mladen Bizumić about a recently renovated Tito-era hotel in Belgrade. Image from JAT headquarters in Irving Park, Chicago by Mat Rappaport https://www.melpotter.com/collaborations-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602772955783-P4MFFR9ZWWV2LEIHQ9KF/RossyPeralta.jpg Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Paper mask, by Rossy Peralta, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic when classes quickly went online Spring 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602521607286-FUNIS4XURCJOVDOM7I8J/_Y5A8178.jpg Columbia College Chicago Papermaking MFA in Book & Paper alumna, Selena Ingram’s thesis work, The Fragile Morphologies of Pulp Bodies, made in handmade paper cast in her apartment bathroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602520325444-OG82BZTQCTQS8Q9P833V/266484_7ab4c47511fc9d9dce702ca783242443.jpg Columbia College Chicago Papermaking MFA in Book & Paper alumna, Mirjana Ursulesku, Echoes in the Dust, 2019. Photo solvent print on vinyl, 60 x 90 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602520379063-HI90AEQ4BUI832YMQ543/IMG_4516.jpeg Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Guest artist, weaver Monika Neuland Thomas collaborates with Melissa Potter to teach weaving techniques in handmade paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602524277575-VO7YR8A2UR5C2H9SWN7U/IMG_5621.jpg Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Student, Philly Johnson stands underneath the work of Andrea Romero, who created a mobile weaving studio for her train commute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602520370332-OUH25NRXZHJXJ3JV2XBZ/7ED12275-6968-4AA9-AAF8-2879C9E791B4.jpeg Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Student, K Lange uses Asian papermaking techniques to transform paper into fabric to create a performance wearable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602524050696-R2Y4MD1D97VHH2NW62WI/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+12.33.52+PM.png Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Julia Pastrana: Becoming, a zine produced with Interdisciplinary Arts graduate students and artist Laura Anderson Barbata for the course, Art of Collaboration designed by Melissa Potter as part of the Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383867857599-P9SRSUIO9TOS6ZL273RH/Boo+and+Shero+rock+it.jpg Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Book & Paper alumna, Boo Gilder creates papel picado-inspired pulp paintings for Laura Anderson Barbata. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602523872127-WCK18V49FL77VVTYXMJR/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+12.30.43+PM.png Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Creating handmade banana paper with The Guerrilla Girls to engage in activist poster making with Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts graduate students, a partnership with their exhibition, Not Ready to Make Nice at the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383867784192-8CAF2HOG3L6N10ZDGL6I/SF-+%2849%29+copy.jpg Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Book & Paper alumna, Kaitlin Kostus (left) works on one of Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë's edition images. https://www.melpotter.com/seeds-inservice-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1607700834088-VQB0YG8QI2SIE09MRB8J/0K0A5773.jpg Seeds InService Seeds InService’s book, An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank, being deposited in the Global Seed Vault mountain art collection, Svalbard, Norway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1607700837259-966BSR6CI8L5U0JR39NN/IMG_E7717.jpg Seeds InService Seeds InService’s deposit in the Global Seed Vault mountain art collection, Svalbard, Norway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524359672472-OHPH21AB8H1PHVDTWBO6/image-20.jpeg Seeds InService Papermaking and medicinal plants growing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1547622169621-5OI6DN0WFEFATI7UFNZE/Slide56.jpg Seeds InService Process from seed to sheet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1614546490640-NSOJHYRN2861WE2TY8GH/05_Potter_SeedPacket_VelvetQueenSunflower.jpg Seeds InService Velvet Queen Sunflower, seed packet, sunflower handmade paper, letterpress, sunflower seeds. Narrating the story of 488 State street, a brothel at the end of the 19th Century adjacent to the location of the Papermaker’s Garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1614546501152-3JS5YXJINMQGD4WBKIMT/12238163_823009601131195_3159269699965568140_o.jpg Seeds InService Food, Sex, & Death, a performance in the Papermaker’s Garden exploring the exploitation of women in contemporary agriculture and the 19th Century brothels in the location of the garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524359528001-DQ2MHH31M8E7VTS0DH61/14242346_10208694699618541_2865773835805539421_o.jpg Seeds InService Bosnian Magic Garden Tea Event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524359583642-TTUDQXDV2P8O6219ZSVW/image001.jpg Seeds InService Women’s March with Banner Books, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524359354187-AIFIMP2A8ZVPF39IQQLH/IMG_3233+copy.JPG Seeds InService Kombucha paper experiments https://www.melpotter.com/pulp-and-pastry-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545637924-8GVTYAWY53D571QW6HCI/Pulp%26Pastry1.jpg Pulp & Pastry Adam Pantic making pita, left, and Melissa H. Potter making paper with the same vegetable and spice materials, right. Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545646068-IBG3DPB7TRN47RG68V1P/Pulp%26Pastry5.jpg Pulp & Pastry Dyeing pulp material with cabbage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545646686-CB81B59LOO8TT046NNWD/Pulp%26Pastry2.jpg Pulp & Pastry Interviewing Denis Haracic about his memories of food, a printmaking student at the Academy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545651371-YXZWXCUCHRJPEBEDN09F/Pulp%26Pastry3.jpg Pulp & Pastry Adam Pantic preparing pita, traditional Bosnian style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545649107-AWW1GM5TOA66UDAC8XEH/Pulp%26Pastry7.jpg Pulp & Pastry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545655250-VAHXJWZR6XH8TMAXFGA8/Pulp%26Pastry8.jpg Pulp & Pastry Jillian Bruschera of The Mobile Mill helping people make paper at the Pulp & Pastry event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1548785096250-UAL59FYQLF50RQHW1BII/Pulp%26Pastry4-sm.jpg Pulp & Pastry Jillian Bruschera of The Mobile Mill works with the audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545651198-49HKTBXSWESWLPWJXUAX/Screen+Shot+2015-06-05+at+6.06.42+PM.png Pulp & Pastry A poem created from the memories of food collected at the Pulp & Pastry performance. https://www.melpotter.com/boy-brides-bachelors-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://www.melpotter.com/revolution-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1488579422564-AOU5LQOSOFL38FHSAXET/laura-anderson-barbata-at-the-funeral-for-julia-pastrana-in-her-home-state%2C-sinaloa%2C-mexico.jpg Revolution at Point Zero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1488579422783-4O4RY1ZKDFYQHDXKCYDU/revolution-at-point-zero-feminist-social-practice.jpg Revolution at Point Zero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1488579422029-GTI12G2C1EA24BM0FBKT/las-nietas-de-nono%CC%81%2C-live-performance-of-ilustraciones-de-la-meca%CC%81nica%2C-with-audience-participation%2C-2015.jpg Revolution at Point Zero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1488579422458-4NX8ZT6S6OIX8RSXY5P1/megan-pitcher-young%2C-the-longest-walk%2C-rnc-cleveland%2C-spring-2016-.jpg Revolution at Point Zero https://www.melpotter.com/classesprograms daily 0.75 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/acabb4d7-2e54-4f26-8ce6-b2ac7f118dc6/unnamed.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/a608c00c-c525-480d-937b-7d385eb6ce13/Felting.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/f10f3533-4dca-4db5-aac5-3fec2ec316b2/IMG_0475.JPG https://www.melpotter.com/curating daily 0.75 2026-01-11 https://www.melpotter.com/curating/pulped-76mmp monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1547758341095-TRZ2ONSJNDJI9DZJIW5W/Pulped+-+big.jpg Curating - Pulped Under Pressure Exhibition card for Pulped Under Pressure. https://www.melpotter.com/curating/social-paper-lwlfj monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383754157459-842NO8WAYRQMXDZ0GB7S/37895+Social+Paper+Postcard-r2_Page_3.jpg Curating - Social Paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524104137211-0338R7DNUDZLME07KWQC/Posters_Final_SP_Page_1.jpg Curating - Social Paper https://www.melpotter.com/curating/revolution-at-point-zero-th26k monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1488579422564-AOU5LQOSOFL38FHSAXET/laura-anderson-barbata-at-the-funeral-for-julia-pastrana-in-her-home-state%2C-sinaloa%2C-mexico.jpg Curating - Revolution at Point Zero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1488579422783-4O4RY1ZKDFYQHDXKCYDU/revolution-at-point-zero-feminist-social-practice.jpg Curating - Revolution at Point Zero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1488579422029-GTI12G2C1EA24BM0FBKT/las-nietas-de-nono%CC%81%2C-live-performance-of-ilustraciones-de-la-meca%CC%81nica%2C-with-audience-participation%2C-2015.jpg Curating - Revolution at Point Zero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1488579422458-4NX8ZT6S6OIX8RSXY5P1/megan-pitcher-young%2C-the-longest-walk%2C-rnc-cleveland%2C-spring-2016-.jpg Curating - Revolution at Point Zero https://www.melpotter.com/teaching daily 0.75 2026-01-11 https://www.melpotter.com/teaching/clitoral-politics-feminist-art-practice-2de3h monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1592163236464-1JN4ZHVEKCU13BR3RYZ4/image-asset.jpeg Teaching - Clitoral Politics: Feminist Art Practice Course description page designed by Katie Brake. https://www.melpotter.com/teaching/international-a6fzk monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383867902845-CKH759R8NFCYTJWRZHM6/SF-+%2810%29.jpg Teaching - International Book & Paper Making Amazonian fibers for paper at the Taller Intensivo el Libro y Papel in Caracas, Venezuela. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1507168103960-SDCRABWA04WPGGLDJP5T/2015-05-12+18.10.31.jpg Teaching - International Book & Paper Pulp and Pastry performance, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo with Adam Pantic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544491973103-CB3VN3UT6R7I1XWMCU0A/HPIM6822.JPG Teaching - International Book & Paper A papermaking demonstration for the Umetnicka skola in Nis, Serbia. Over the course of ten years and through Fulbright funding, I traveled extensively throughout the country with Biljana Vukovic, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade, to offer demonstrations on this little-known medium. https://www.melpotter.com/teaching/university-of-chicago-e6fdw monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299846249-I7D0DC70RNII1WELONBY/IMG_3374.JPG Teaching - End Tales: University of Chicago Milkweed paper, sourced from Lurie Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299650223-WL9TZLIN55KOL1HTWBDC/Poster_EndTales.jpg Teaching - End Tales: University of Chicago End Tales: Recounting and Retrieving the Altered Worlds event poster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299698283-GJYRZQGEGDQJ55S4TGOF/46712867_10156300188137599_379252247961272320_o.jpg Teaching - End Tales: University of Chicago Students from University of Chicago work at the papermaking studio, Columbia College Chicago with Melissa H Potter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299698333-NWE5CD5I54HMHG7GWH6J/46767548_10156300197892599_4154299433359507456_o.jpg Teaching - End Tales: University of Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299699486-RQAJ9DQZGCEF3YV69XXW/46772792_10156300187012599_8142405983373623296_o.jpg Teaching - End Tales: University of Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299699535-JPIVD94ZEY9MDVNUAXMX/46819137_10156300186767599_116267504891854848_o.jpg Teaching - End Tales: University of Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1544299700319-UX11G4LF5XWHC9ZX9LLT/46860494_10156300189522599_3274963815044743168_o.jpg Teaching - End Tales: University of Chicago Master printer, Chris Flynn, Columbia College Chicago. https://www.melpotter.com/teaching/botanical-alchemy-je3et monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1591233977878-FQ99WQLMG9OYEGODZQ02/Mel.Haystack+-+8.jpg Teaching - Botanical Alchemy Making seaweed paper at night, Haystack's papermaking studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1591235922541-XUVVHRTXV2NY2VKX0ZDI/IMG_2537.jpg Teaching - Botanical Alchemy Handmade books and paper by Melissa Aranzamendez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1591233998212-3XBB7TZ7NHBQ09MZOZQR/Mel.Haystack+-+25.jpg Teaching - Botanical Alchemy Soe Yu Nwe with her works in the paper studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1591234006611-EY8PPS0KLE1Q5NQ2GD8G/Mel.Haystack+-+26.jpg Teaching - Botanical Alchemy Invasive species plant, Lupein made into a wearable by Josue Romero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1591235281070-024NDTQHTAURBZRRYT4A/IMG_2329.jpg Teaching - Botanical Alchemy Using the Haystack studio windows to dry paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1591235389224-EENVY90L1S5WLRCT2TDI/IMG_2353.jpg Teaching - Botanical Alchemy Foraging for materials in the Haystack landscape https://www.melpotter.com/teaching/columbiapapermaking-s487w monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602772955783-P4MFFR9ZWWV2LEIHQ9KF/RossyPeralta.jpg Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Paper mask, by Rossy Peralta, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic when classes quickly went online Spring 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602521607286-FUNIS4XURCJOVDOM7I8J/_Y5A8178.jpg Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking MFA in Book & Paper alumna, Selena Ingram’s thesis work, The Fragile Morphologies of Pulp Bodies, made in handmade paper cast in her apartment bathroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602520325444-OG82BZTQCTQS8Q9P833V/266484_7ab4c47511fc9d9dce702ca783242443.jpg Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking MFA in Book & Paper alumna, Mirjana Ursulesku, Echoes in the Dust, 2019. Photo solvent print on vinyl, 60 x 90 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602520379063-HI90AEQ4BUI832YMQ543/IMG_4516.jpeg Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Guest artist, weaver Monika Neuland Thomas collaborates with Melissa Potter to teach weaving techniques in handmade paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602524277575-VO7YR8A2UR5C2H9SWN7U/IMG_5621.jpg Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Student, Philly Johnson stands underneath the work of Andrea Romero, who created a mobile weaving studio for her train commute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602520370332-OUH25NRXZHJXJ3JV2XBZ/7ED12275-6968-4AA9-AAF8-2879C9E791B4.jpeg Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Student, K Lange uses Asian papermaking techniques to transform paper into fabric to create a performance wearable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602524050696-R2Y4MD1D97VHH2NW62WI/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+12.33.52+PM.png Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Julia Pastrana: Becoming, a zine produced with Interdisciplinary Arts graduate students and artist Laura Anderson Barbata for the course, Art of Collaboration designed by Melissa Potter as part of the Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383867857599-P9SRSUIO9TOS6ZL273RH/Boo+and+Shero+rock+it.jpg Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Book & Paper alumna, Boo Gilder creates papel picado-inspired pulp paintings for Laura Anderson Barbata. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1602523872127-WCK18V49FL77VVTYXMJR/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+12.30.43+PM.png Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Creating handmade banana paper with The Guerrilla Girls to engage in activist poster making with Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts graduate students, a partnership with their exhibition, Not Ready to Make Nice at the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383867784192-8CAF2HOG3L6N10ZDGL6I/SF-+%2849%29+copy.jpg Teaching - Columbia College Chicago Papermaking Book & Paper alumna, Kaitlin Kostus (left) works on one of Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë's edition images. https://www.melpotter.com/teaching/pandemic-papermaking-pradn monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1675028810820-NVRNB4KLS6TFFI12YPKQ/Screen+Shot+2023-01-25+at+11.55.41+AM.png Teaching - Pandemic Papermaking https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1675028819075-LNCMDGFE6Q8VUWMHD7PH/Screen+Shot+2023-01-23+at+9.53.52+AM.png Teaching - Pandemic Papermaking https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1675028858662-6E4S99A9GWU645OD5SGV/Screen+Shot+2023-01-23+at+10.01.03+AM.png Teaching - Pandemic Papermaking https://www.melpotter.com/work daily 1.0 2026-03-09 https://www.melpotter.com/work/fsb-herbarium monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/9098fff1-5265-466a-bffa-c98318335103/PXL_20260127_140433410%7E2.jpg https://www.melpotter.com/work/invisible-makers-2ge9b monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1474819091135-4TY7WQ3846P2K5LQ2DOF/Cover.jpg Work - Invisible Makers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1474819094731-7PNMN4YY65N85G1OH3BD/Hildegard.jpg Work - Invisible Makers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1474819099439-M1C41WFPHTKW67IAKBJD/NicholasHilliard.jpg Work - Invisible Makers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1474819103085-BEP07TE914IAPBZC2LPB/Lin.jpg Work - Invisible Makers https://www.melpotter.com/work/handmade-media-dszht monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1548788897971-UOK2HU4CM83YNNINK9IN/16%2BPotter_Craft_Power_Tusheti_Rug-sm.jpg Work - Handmade Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1548788897872-ZFAA98LWC96RNFA4OCWZ/15%2BPotter_Craft_Power_Tusheti_Rug-sm.jpg Work - Handmade Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1384188332263-V1S6S3D6TZHPP6Q7990I/17+Potter_Craft_Power_Tusheti_Rug.jpg Work - Handmade Media https://www.melpotter.com/work/like-other-girls-do-6cenh monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://www.melpotter.com/work/pulp-pastry-d83kz monthly 0.5 2026-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545637924-8GVTYAWY53D571QW6HCI/Pulp%26Pastry1.jpg Work - Pulp & Pastry Adam Pantic making pita, left, and Melissa H. Potter making paper with the same vegetable and spice materials, right. Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545646068-IBG3DPB7TRN47RG68V1P/Pulp%26Pastry5.jpg Work - Pulp & Pastry Dyeing pulp material with cabbage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545646686-CB81B59LOO8TT046NNWD/Pulp%26Pastry2.jpg Work - Pulp & Pastry Interviewing Denis Haracic about his memories of food, a printmaking student at the Academy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545651371-YXZWXCUCHRJPEBEDN09F/Pulp%26Pastry3.jpg Work - Pulp & Pastry Adam Pantic preparing pita, traditional Bosnian style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545649107-AWW1GM5TOA66UDAC8XEH/Pulp%26Pastry7.jpg Work - Pulp & Pastry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545655250-VAHXJWZR6XH8TMAXFGA8/Pulp%26Pastry8.jpg Work - Pulp & Pastry Jillian Bruschera of The Mobile Mill helping people make paper at the Pulp & Pastry event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1548785096250-UAL59FYQLF50RQHW1BII/Pulp%26Pastry4-sm.jpg Work - Pulp & Pastry Jillian Bruschera of The Mobile Mill works with the audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1433545651198-49HKTBXSWESWLPWJXUAX/Screen+Shot+2015-06-05+at+6.06.42+PM.png Work - Pulp & Pastry A poem created from the memories of food collected at the Pulp & Pastry performance. https://www.melpotter.com/work/feminist-felt-wppmz monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842646524-1SAYBK74JHAG6LPLDMM0/Equal2.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Equal Pay for Equal Work, designed with Ida Bakhturidze, Miriam Schaer, Nana Magradze, and Clifton Meador https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1548706731333-F0AYR8CUGA30UJK3Z8SP/Feminist+Felt+-+lg+-reduced.jpg Work - Feminist Felt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842642571-IAC9ZVQTT9FTH61T7H1O/CreditUnion.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Melissa Potter and Ida Bakhturidze in a Georgian village credit union. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842660799-3374UHGZO03P8EF3ZF57/NoViolence.jpg Work - Feminist Felt No Violence, designed by Ida Bakhturidze and an Alvani workshop participant in handmade felt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842663583-Q1XIDF17WJZN3BZOSRT3/NoViolence2.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Ida Bakhturidze and Melissa Potter in front of the Alvani school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842659448-T7M8OD1THXNOUZNR2QL9/MyBodyMyChoice.jpg Work - Feminist Felt My Body, My Choice, designed by Ida Bakhturidze and Melissa Potter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842646020-SPH0K8PZTXRFXHBJU46D/DownWithPatriarchy.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Listen to Women! Designed by Independent Group of Feminists members in Tbilisi, Georgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842673276-Q5BX1RVN78E89D35K9UW/WomensRights.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Women's Rights are Human Rights, designed by Ida Bakhturizde https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842671229-KD2PXM3715QLOMEXTL1O/WomensDaycomposite.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Tbilisi's first International Women's Day march with banners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842641711-VEGTWEMS8PCF0QMRVOU2/Chenciner.jpg Work - Feminist Felt From the collection of ethnographer, Robert Chenciner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842667257-N7H9VL16TZZBA3SPJXZ0/TushetiImages.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Women in Alvani share their Tusheti traditional design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842665715-4S9DOP2QWHIB574Q28H9/TheAvengers.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Ida Bakhturidze, Melissa Potter and Miriam Schaer at the Georgian border of Daghestan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842654796-9FOBJKBUTQ81P6LFAKSN/JerseyDevil.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Jersey Devil felt mask, designed by Melissa Potter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842656289-QIHZLI1FKDPPO0WNLO3C/MaskSelfie.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Ida Bakhturidze wearing bunny mustache mask designed by Melissa Potter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842651774-HAUGZ84H14JEH3F6649P/FeministMask.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Women's Fund in Georgia founder, Nana Pantsulaia and her feminist mask. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1383842668993-89LYERG0M1ZBF7U167VL/VirginityProtest.jpg Work - Feminist Felt Felted masked activism at protests against virginity testing in Tbilisi. https://www.melpotter.com/work/flax-farm-42df6 monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1570227587733-ZJHL5ZE1QFVRDAA7M1BM/IMG_1126.jpg Work - Flax Farm John Woolman quote https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1570227597610-BJV1KC0BI4EJ81I9MAYC/IMG_1129.jpg Work - Flax Farm Lucretia Mott quote https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1570227600263-BKS4KI9V9ZS1UQ5VZ7TX/IMG_1131.jpg Work - Flax Farm Flax growing in a cloche https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1570227607325-RTWNNBBM7HHWU8AH6LA1/IMG_1124.jpg Work - Flax Farm https://www.melpotter.com/work/flax-feminism-jyldz monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/2de676ae-30bb-4647-b94e-590cc59b2be2/12.jpg Work - Flax Feminism - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1626491260378-QCAP526DS2JIJTYCYL2E/Six+Weeks+of+Flax.jpg Work - Flax Feminism - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1622680052515-0Q042F6GL3JSX9NUTDTV/FF+Final.jpg Work - Flax Feminism - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.melpotter.com/work/marilyns-paper-xtajz monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1569632936768-C2OWST0PIDH5RL9WA34U/PotterPullingSheetsFilmStill5.jpg Work - Marilyn's Paper Pulling paper with a mould used by Marilyn Sward in the 80s at her organization, Paper Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1569632970619-GR5MSAJM9PAYVX2P9SH8/Potter_SwardFilmStill_4.png Work - Marilyn's Paper Sourcing papermaking fiber at dawn at the Lurie Garden, Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1569632978970-AI1H00J1AKJUL9WHPT8Z/PotterCuttingFiberFilmStill4.jpg Work - Marilyn's Paper Cutting red switchgrass grass fibers from the Lurie Garden for cooking and pulping for hand papermaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1569632997732-0U7B5G3490Q0X8YZ7ZHO/Potter_SwardFilmStill_1.png Work - Marilyn's Paper An antique Chinese botanical print, almost discarded in an unmarked portfolio of Marilyn Sward’s work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1569633017463-MFKD3S1NKWYEC71E3E4C/PotterSwardArchiveInstallDetail8.JPG Work - Marilyn's Paper Installation for Let’s Do It: Twenty Three Years of Book and Paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1569633031877-NXUGOWZTPJV4SHPJ5QM3/PotterSwardArchiveProjectInstall7.JPG Work - Marilyn's Paper Installation for Let’s Do It: Twenty-Three Years of Book & Paper. https://www.melpotter.com/work/spinningpaper-f6sw2 monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1677959391275-VA3VH0YMCMQLQ0DI50QP/WebMokosh.jpg Work - Spinning Paper Mokosh’s Rug, hand spun flax paper yarn, archive of papermaking scraps, 3 x 5 feet, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1677959391599-JR4U4PYN0T22B4OQ4B2N/WebSoumak.jpg Work - Spinning Paper Soumak Scrap, archive of handmade paper scraps, linen, assorted, tapestry weaving, 3 x 5 feet, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1677959400966-QBM9H52DCBADBNQCPG2S/WebTusheti.jpg Work - Spinning Paper Tusheti Rug 3, pulped quilt, okra handmade paper, el wire, tapestry weaving, 3 x 5 feet, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1677958184585-7NTLWIA9YWDJBYTQSNWF/Plant+Protection.jpg Work - Spinning Paper Archive, spun flax paper thread, handmade paper artwork scraps, tapestry weaving, 8 x 60 inches, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1587572736479-SOH7NT7G73ILGAXE1AUD/2020-04-20+17.12.43.jpg Work - Spinning Paper Baba Yaga’s Plant Protection/Paper Protection, handspun flax thread made from handmade paper with archive of papermaking samples: Lichen, potato vine, abaca, switchgrass, okra, and other fibers, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1587572732886-4GVBZ6UKTMBXOI9843RH/2020-04-20+17.13.09.jpg Work - Spinning Paper Baba Yaga’s Plant Protection/Paper Protection, detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1579814408912-6M4EZPBYAVZ9K2VUN9TL/Weaving_RedTide.jpg Work - Spinning Paper Red Tide, hand spun yarn from handmade paper artworks in flax, mulberry, and local grasses, 12’ x 18”, 2020. https://www.melpotter.com/work/seeds-inservice-hf48j monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524359672472-OHPH21AB8H1PHVDTWBO6/image-20.jpeg Work - Seeds InService Papermaking and medicinal plants growing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1547622169621-5OI6DN0WFEFATI7UFNZE/Slide56.jpg Work - Seeds InService Process from seed to sheet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1614546501152-3JS5YXJINMQGD4WBKIMT/12238163_823009601131195_3159269699965568140_o.jpg Work - Seeds InService Food, Sex, & Death, a performance in the Papermaker’s Garden exploring the exploitation of women in contemporary agriculture and the 19th Century brothels in the location of the garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524359528001-DQ2MHH31M8E7VTS0DH61/14242346_10208694699618541_2865773835805539421_o.jpg Work - Seeds InService Bosnian Magic Garden Tea Event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1524359583642-TTUDQXDV2P8O6219ZSVW/image001.jpg Work - Seeds InService Women’s March with Banner Books, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1607700837259-966BSR6CI8L5U0JR39NN/IMG_E7717.jpg Work - Seeds InService Seeds InService’s deposit in the Global Seed Vault mountain art collection, Svalbard, Norway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1607700834088-VQB0YG8QI2SIE09MRB8J/0K0A5773.jpg Work - Seeds InService Seeds InService’s book, An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank, being deposited in the Global Seed Vault mountain art collection, Svalbard, Norway. https://www.melpotter.com/work/illuminated-dyync monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/8d497050-3eed-4cdc-95cf-2d25d9040cd7/IlluminatedFeministSeedbank_cover-spread-1.jpg Work - Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank Book - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.melpotter.com/work/invisible-labors-am2mz monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/f27a4415-a0fb-4c3c-9c1c-694d03a6121f/a15.jpg Work - Invisible Labors - Make it stand out A cauldron cooking station at Boundary Gallery devised for an itinerant practice (outdoor spaces must be borrowed.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/ede7fc2c-6fb2-4636-bf0a-8b480ae14254/a17.jpg Work - Invisible Labors - Make it stand out The Invisible Labors prairie garden at Boundary Gallery built in Summer 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/28be403f-223f-4f17-96b1-988841e87ea2/a11.jpg Work - Invisible Labors - Make it stand out Cauldron cooking for hand papermaking with milkweed fiber paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/1628204808151-IOPTJ8B7RWFAKG05C4PD/InvisibleLaborsIllustratorAdjust.jpg Work - Invisible Labors - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.melpotter.com/work/invisible-labors-the-book-2zrrx monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52799d5ce4b01f648b9eb8cb/0894204a-104c-428b-a7ff-08641390fa6a/2%2BInvisible%2BLabors%2BFoldout%2BFull%2BBook.jpg Work - Invisible Labors: The Book - Make it stand out Invisible Labors, accordion book with four saddle-stitched pamphlets, risograph printed, burdock handmade paper tip in. 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