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Melissa Whitaker of Color Splash: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became An Artist
Art Placer
Listen to Melissa Whitaker talk about her work for companies across the US, bringing her signature pop-graphic-noir style to their branding and storytelling.
You can find it on all major podcast platforms such as iTunes, Stitcher, Android, iHeart, and on The Clark Hulings Fund site.
About Town
The Tree of Life Artwork received first place in the first annual Ooh! Art Billboard contest in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The artwork went up on several digital billboards in the regional area and 1 papered billboard on the corner of Mt. Auburn and State Hwy 74 in Cape Girardeau.
1st Place - Tree of Life, Melissa Whitaker
2nd Place - A Change is Gonna Come, Jim Gokkel
3rd Place -Â Untitled , Brian Alworth
Current Exhibitions
Arts Council of Southeast Missouri
Artwork to be displayed throughout 2022 in downtown Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Â New artwork monthly,
16 S. Spanish St., Cape Girardeau, MO
Wonderfully charming studio and gallery at 13150 State Highway 72, Millersville, MO. Â Artwork, prints, jewelry and mosaics on sale throughout the year. Â OPEN HOUSE on March 12, 2022 so check it out.
Exibizone Winter 2021
11-Mar-2021
"This work is not only fun (at least the indifferent young girl is) but could also be seen as social commentary in a world of endless 9 to 5 workers in line to begin their day of drudgery and who are oblivious to the young girl who is truly enjoying herself. The hallucinogenic bubbles are intruding the viewers space while the remainder of the composition lives in two planes, the plane of the silhouetted people in the queue and the girl on the wall. I could imagine that if Norman Rockwell lived 3 generations later he might have done a work like this. He took his jabs at social commentary as well and influenced people more than any politician ever could." ~ Allen Ruttenberg
Past Exhibitions
March 2022- 2023
September 2020
February 2020-2021
December  2019
September 2019
2011-2018
January 2015-2017
July 2014
July 2015
July 2013
June 2013 - January 2014
July 2012
May 2012
October 2011
2009-2011
June 2008
Arts Council of Southeast Missouri Members Exhibition
Arts Council of Southeast Missouri Members Exhibition
Free Spirit Studio
Art Council of Southeast Missouri
Art Council of Southeast Missouri
Visual Artist Coop
Metro Title
Black Door Gallery "Feminine Perspective"
Black Door Gallery "Feminine Perspective"
Black Door Gallery "Feminine Perspective"
Jones Art Gallery
All Things Considered- Las Laguna Gallery
CONSEQUENCES - arc gallery & studios
Bilderbach Art Plaza - Solo Exhibitio
Cadmium River Art Studio
Black Door Gallery  Grant Lund Workshop
