Speaker Melanie Uribe

Melanie Uribe is a Venezuelan award-winning Creative Director and Assistant Professor at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. She received her MFA and BFA in Graphic Design and works at the intersection of graphic design, printmaking, and book arts. Her research focuses on exploring the role of exhibition spaces in sharing the narrative of immigrants. Melanie is currently exploring digital interactive experiences and experimenting with augmented reality to visually articulate the significance of emotion to highlight the plight of refugees