Melody Weintraub Bio

Melody Weintraub has lived in the Memphis area for most of her life. She served as President of the Tennessee Art Education Association (TAEA) from 2020-2022. Her awards include, 2025 NAEA Southeastern Region Art Educator of the Year, 2025 TAEA Tennessee Art Educator of the Year, and 2023 Tennessee Arts Academy’s Joe W. Giles Lifetime Achievement Award. Melody has presented numerous studio workshops in multiple mediums and lectured on the state, regional and national levels.  She has also conducted workshops nationally and throughout many states in the Southeastern Region. She taught community watercolor classes in the Memphis area for over 20 years. She currently serves as Memphis Germantown Art League’s Education Chair. As an artist, she studied watercolor under the direction of Lynda Tate and Lafayette Ragsdale in West Tennessee. She has participated in several group and solo art exhibitions in the Memphis area including a solo exhibition, “My Story in Light and Shadows,” at WKNO in January, 2024. She was recently juried into the Memphis Germantown Art League’s Winter Exhibition and she has been juried into three national exhibitions with the Watercolor Society of Alabama. She wrote and illustrated, “The Little Bluebird,” (2001). Melody currently supervises art education candidates remotely for The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has written over 30 articles for SchoolArts Magazine and is published in “STEAM Education: An Interdisciplinary Look at Art in the Curriculum,” NAEA 2024. She and her husband, Jeff Weintraub, enjoy living on a lake with their little Boston Terrier, “Buster.” Melody also enjoys acting and can be seen in several television commercials. She also appeared as the history teacher in the 2009 film, The Blind Side.

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