Easter Bonnet & Parade

This year for Easter, a bunch of artists got together, The Westside Merrymakers, and we created an Easter Bonnet Parade, that visited several parks and roamed all over the westside of Jersey City. See the article here. Bunny Hop 2021 from Melissa Ulto on Vimeo.
The Flower Power Portrait Poster Series

I am currently working on a series – Flower Power Portraits – for people I know and love, facing issues they deal with regularly. I wanted to show how beautiful, inside and out, these people are, despite these issues, using color, flowers and slogans or sentences submitted by the subject. The series will be ongoing, […]
Spring Mandala 2021-1 – NFT Art

Check out another piece of NFT art, available on another platform Mintable – Spring Mandala 2021-1 – a 3D animation of a mandala in early spring colors. See a gif of the work below. See images from the animation below:
The Getty acquires Miranda July’s ‘Joanie 4 Jackie’ – including a piece by Melissa Ulto

The Getty acquires Miranda July’s feminist DIY video archive for ‘Joanie 4 Jackie’ Before there was YouTube, there was “Joanie 4 Jackie.” In 1995 artist Miranda July, who was steeped in the Portland Riot Grrrl scene at the time, created a feminist “chainletter tape,” a DIY effort to spark and distribute new video work by women […]