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ARTIST STATEMENT & BIO
Mel Day is a Canadian artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on performance, video, multi-media installations, and community engagement. She co-founded The Wall of Song Project, evolving video and interactive singing installations dedicated, in recent years, to amplifying the voices of athletes in women’s sport who search for equity and joy. Day’s installations and projects have been shared at venues including Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San José Museum of Art (virtually), San José Institute of Contemporary Art, Berkeley Art Museum, Provident Credit Union Event Center stadium, and internationally. Her honors include the Headlands Center for the Arts Alumni New Works Award and UC Berkeley Fellowship, Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Nexus Award, as well as residencies with Stanford University’s Experimental Media Arts, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Germany), Djerassi Resident Artist Program, The Lab Residency (San Francisco) and a Guest Fellowship at Montalvo Art Center. Day holds an MFA from UC Berkeley and currently teaches at San José State University.