Melody Joy Overstreet
- Curators, Educators and Community Organizers 2027
Melody Joy Overstreet is an Iranian-American artist, writer, and educator based in a floodplain along the coast of California.
Through weaving, printmaking, poetry, and storytelling, her practice explores relationships between ecology, memory, and community, inviting deeper attention to the living world. She is the author of Reverberations (2022) and the author-illustrator of the children’s book Water’s Song (2026), and has participated in residencies with the Siena Art Institute, Big Basin
Redwoods State Park, Kala Art Institute, and The On Being Project. Alongside her creative practice, she teaches nature-based education and works with children to steward the Earth, cultivating relationships with place.
Redwoods State Park, Kala Art Institute, and The On Being Project. Alongside her creative practice, she teaches nature-based education and works with children to steward the Earth, cultivating relationships with place.