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 For the most part, Melanie Whitley was raised in the fun loving city of San Antonio, Texas. Although visual arts was her first love, she was heavily involved in the theater and dance communities while living there. Since then, she has lived in the Midwest and Southwest regions of the U.S., where she studied a strange brain cocktail consisting of design, philosophy, journalism, and esoteric subjects.
Over the years Melanie’s focus has shifted from performing to creating visual arts and crafts, but that doesn’t mean her appreciation for the performing arts has waned. On the contrary, because she has worked at arts centers in administrative positions, she has seen and met some incredibly talented people in many artistic fields. These experiences, combined with her own experiences of working in a variety of disciplines, has inspired her to adopt a passion for making all of the arts accessible to everyone who so desires.
Besides working at established art organizations, Melanie also owned, designed and managed an online gallery and community, MoJoCoArt.com, which brought much satisfaction for three years. Her favorite part of MoJoCo was trading Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) and chatting with artists from around the globe. After nearly three years since that website passed over to the www afterlife, she has freed up some time and created this website which she manages, much to her delight.
Melanie now lives in a tiny (but, friendly and peaceful) town in the Sonoran Desert. Living in the Curley School Artisan Lofts in Ajo, AZ gives her time to catch up with and finish the projects she started, while getting involved in this blooming community. When not in front of the computer, Melanie spends her free time making arts, crafts, and illustrations; getting in debates about the big subjects that people probably shouldn’t get involved in; charting horoscopes; reading divination cards; attending art functions; studying and writing about some of her favorite subjects; and keeping a finely tuned ear alert to what the stars in the big Arizona sky sing to her in her sleep.
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