Public Presentation

December 6 3-3:45 PM

Room 231, PAHB

MD Traditions Artist in Residence AY24-25, Melissa Hyatt Foss is an instrument maker, musician, and composer-performer who co-creates with an ever-growing collection of musical instruments that she handcrafts with clay and other materials. Her instruments, which are both visual and sonic objects, recreate and reimagine Pre-Columbian sound artifacts of the Americas through the lens of personal narrative and regional mythology.

This presentation will include insights into the traditional practice by Melissa Hyatt Foss and performances with the first year Lineham Artist Scholars.