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ARTIST STATEMENT & BIO
Mel Day is a San Francisco Bay Area interdisciplinary artist focused on multi-media performance, installation, social justice, and community engagement. She co-founded The Wall of Song Project, a series of ensemble video and choral performances dedicated, in recent years, to amplifying the voices of athletes in women’s sport in their search for equity and joy. Day’s site-specific, interactive performances and durational video installations 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.