Melisa Elif Gereççi
b. 1983
SELECT PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2024 Windows of Understanding, Highland Park, NJ
2022 City Feast, Audible, Innovation Cathedral, Newark, NJ
2022 Signal Ahead, East Coast Greenway, Metuchen, NJ
2022 Yards Alive! Rutgers University, Metuchen, NJ
2021 Foodways, Highland Park, NJ
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
2023 Vignette Art Fair, Market Hall, Dallas, TX (upcoming)
2023 Works on Paper , The Newark Public Library Special Collections
2023 Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS, Ortuzar Projects, New York, NY
2023 Bloom! Gallery Aferro Annual Gala, Newark, NJ
2022 Artful Healing, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
2022 Now is Right Here, Gallery Aferro Annual Gala, Newark, NJ
2021 Build Your Own God and Other Ideas for a Kinder World, Artshack, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Creative Resilience, Newark Arts Festival, Newark, NJ
2021 Welcome Back to the World, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2020 Pushing the Envelope, Pulp Gallery, Mount Holyoke, MA
2019 Green Zine Fair, Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York, NY
SELECT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
2023 How to Play, Whitehot Magazine
2023 NEW EWR: Art at the Airport, Newarker Magazine
2021 Clothes Up and Personal: Portraits of Four Fashion Designers, Newarker Magazine
2020 The Streets will be Empty this Good Friday, The Star-Ledger
2019 From Arne Duncan to Betsy DeVos: Litigating Title IX as the Rules are Rewritten, NSBA
2019 Race, Color & National Origin: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, NACUA
EDUCATION
2009 New York University School of Law, JD
2005 The University of Texas at Austin, BA Plan II Liberal Arts Honors
Thesis: Adaptive Reuse of the Lonestar Brewery as the San Antonio Museum of Art
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Advocated for schools and universities as a lawyer. Judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ramon E. Reyes, Jr., in Brooklyn federal court in 2009.