Melanie Landsittel

artworks I have made

About the Collection

I am an artist / researcher based at the Univeristy of Iowa.

Research areas: knitting, bookbinding, historical labor practices (labors of the month), degrowth, weaving, simple and immediate printing (letterpress, block, risograph), baking and the labor of maintenance, papermaking

Lines of Inquiry

How medieval people spent their leisure time, its extents and contents, the ways it’s written about, qualitative and quantitative data and artist-research creation

Preservation of tradition in the name of environmentalism and social progress, through the lens of food writing

The use of cookbooks as primary sources for qualitative research on quality of life in comparative analysis

Research Output

Spring 2025; Examining Labors of the Month; A Divine Right to Wintertime Leisure – paper, medievalist; presented at the Newberry Library, Graduate Conference for Pre-Modern Studies

Fall 2024; Using our Archives- Lecture and workshop on research-creation, artist practice-led research and archives as their tool

Summer 2024; Wheat and Grass, 4-layer woodblock print

Spring 2024; A Match Made in Heaven; cookbook and broadside

Spring 2024; Without work their is no Kolach, curated exhibition with Stanley Museum of Art Collection and Special Collections collaborative Pop-up event

Spring 2024; Recipes for my Coworkers, community cookbook publication

Spring 2023; Green Space, a solo exhibition investigating the interaction of woven textile, nature, and degrowth-themed essay writing at Bolivar Gallery, Lexington, KY

Spring 2022; Better is the Enemy of Good, collaborative exhibition with Dillon Charles Ward investigating the effects of surveillance technology on inter-personal relationships through hybridized materials, Parachute Factory, Lexington KY.

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