About Melinda Hajdin
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Education
2017 - 2019
San Jose State University
2015 - 2017
Mission College
Awards
2019
Jeannette F. Rankin Fellowship
2019
Maria D.L.C. Academic Achievement Award
2018
Madge Congdon Memorial Scholarship
2017
Osher Transfer Student Scholarship
2016
ASG Scholarship
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Previous events
Event: Topics in Figure Painting: Naturalism
Dates: 6 May 2019 - 10 May 2019
Student show of figure paintings in oil.
Event: Deadly Valentine
Dates: 11 Mar 2019 - 15 Mar 2019
My culminating show for my BFA degree, "Deadly Valentine" was an installation on the topic of domestic violence.
Event: Visage
Dates: 7 Jan 2019 - 11 Jan 2019
A collection of bronze heads and faces.
Event: Chasing
Dates: 10 Dec 2018 - 14 Dec 2018
Group show of metal sculpture
Event: Broken Icon
Dates: 1 May 2018 - 4 May 2018
Three heads cast in aluminum
Event: The Moth Migration Project
Dates: 1 Apr 2018 - 10 Aug 2019
Collaboration with Hilary Lorenz
Event: Annual Student Art Show
Dates: 1 May 2017 - 5 May 2017
Ceramic heads
Biography
I currently live and work in central Europe, and am focusing on drawing/painting a series of landscapes of a small Slovenian mining town, in an impressionistic manner.
Background for my sculptural work: When I was a child, everyone around me was a stranger. I could not recognize faces. Drawing/sculpting them helped me learn and remember, and became an obsession that has never waned. Over time, my facial recognition skills have improved, but I still compulsively express myself by making faces, whether they are masks, heads, or busts. It’s something my hands automatically do whenever they are idle.
