Melissa B. Derecola

About Me

Decided to return to school and study art history, something that I had alsways be intereseted in I grew up in a very small Vermont town surrounded by artistic community members. It was a positive influenced to learn from so many amazingly creative people who explored a while range of media from paint and glass. At the young age of nine I was given "real" watercolor paper by a family friend and I carefully planned what I would fill the pages with.

By the time I was in high school I knew that wanted a job that allowed be to be creative and experiance living in other places. College brought me to Philadephia, after four years I left Philly with a bachelors in graphic design and moved further south. I spend my free time working on creative projects using materials like glue, paint, computer graphics and more. There are actually very few artistic things I don't enjoy. Together with my husband I have traveled to Europe, Asia and around North America. We both love to learn more about other cultures.

Currenly I split my time between Northern Virginia and Seattle, where I spent time in 2012 at the Seattle Art Museum helping with their summer art camp.

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiance." - Eleanor Roosevelt