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MELODY OFTEN

Melody painted two beautiful murals in Ithaca during the first week of September 2019. 


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Melody with her family: Ulises and Corazon
Melody Often has painted murals promoting the environment for the Maryland Science Center and the Baltimore Office of the Promotion of the Arts. She lives in Schenectady, NY where she illustrates and colors for such companies as IDW, Image, Dark Horse, and Entertainment Weekly. She frequently collaborates with her partner, illustrator, Ulises Farinas. Her first graphic novel got a Xeric Grant, written by her mother, Janet Tangirala, about the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. She has organized 2 comic book anthologies and contributed to and or illustrated for Amazing Forest, 1001 Knights, and Corpus. She has a baby boy named Corazon. 

Melody painting the Aikido Mural in the Collegetown garage.

Public Art Projects by Melody Often in other places.

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    • AAPI Murals
    • Belle Sherman Murals
    • BJM Legacy Mural
    • BLOG: Ithaca is Murals
    • Camp Earth Connection
    • Cayuga Heights Mural
    • Cinemapolis Mural
    • Dorothy Cotton Mural
    • Ithaca Votes
    • Karen Mural
    • Latin American Murals
    • Learning Web Mural 2019
    • Northeast Elementary School
    • New Roots Mural 2019
    • Portals to Peace
    • ReUse Murals
    • Sciencenter
    • South Hill Rec Trail
    • Southside Bikes
    • Southside Murals
    • Sunrise on the Green New Deal
    • Terrance Vann @ CCE
    • Thriving Futures
    • Underground Railroad Mural
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    • WellBeing (2021)
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    • Year Of Water
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