Melanie Printup Hope

Associate Professor, Visual Arts
West Hall, Albany
518-292-8608
hopem@sage.edu

Melanie Printup Hope is of Tuscarora descent and was raised on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in western New York State. She earned her bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design at the Rochester Institute of Technology and her master of fine arts degree in electronic arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Melanie is a masters candidate in museum studies at the Cooperstown Graduate Program. She lives in Schenectady, New York, where she owns her own graphic design business. She is currently associate professor of graphic design at The Sage Colleges and has also taught at the University of Minnesota, Banff Centre for the Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Skidmore College.

Her video, multimedia and installation work has been shown throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. She received a Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship in 1996 and has received additional awards and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Jerome Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts and the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund. Her biography has been included in Whos Who Among Americas Teachers, Whos Who of American Women and The World Whos Who of Women.