Paiute Painter Melissa Melero-Moose Wins $15,000 Native Arts Grant for Work Made From Willow and Pine Nuts
Melissa Melero-Moose doesn’t just paint the Great Basin, she gathers it. Willow, tule, cattails, and pine nuts collected from her Northern Paiute homelands are embedded in the layered, abstract surfaces of her mixed-media paintings, alongside acrylic washes and rice paper. That practice