Melinda Barnadas

Melinda Barnadas is a graduate of UCSD’s Visual Arts MFA Program. She is a co-artist and co-founder of the international art entity, Collective Magpie. “Magpie” has produced synergistic public art works and events in a broad range of integrated media, aimed at inspiring interaction and wonder in galleries and public spaces throughout North America. Melinda’s education includes earning her BFA in Painting/Art and Technology from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Visual Arts Studies in Regional History at Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico.

• Graduate Student Instructor, UC San Diego
• Theatrical Prop Designer/Fabricator, La Jolla Playhouse
• Museum Preparator, San Diego Museum of Art
• Biological Model Builder, Canadian Museum of Nature
• Commercial Muralist (photorealist), Independent Contractor

• BFA in Painting/Art & Technology from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• MFA in Visual Arts, UC San Diego

• Green Light course, High Tech High, San Diego, CA
• Crystal course, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
• Flight course, Mesa School for the Arts, Mesa, AZ
• Giant Paint by Numbers, Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada

• Block Grant, UC San Diego
• Teaching Assistant Grant, UC San Diego
• ARTS Award, National Foundation for the Advancement in Arts, USA Miniature Arts Society of Florida Award
• Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago