Susan Hodara, New York Times
January 1, 2012
A series of ink drawings of people buried at Hart Island, the city’s potter’s field, is on display at Westchester Community College, the latest body of work by Melinda Hunt.
Randy Boswell, Postmedia News
December 23, 2011
A Canadian artist has become the unlikely keeper of the history of Hart Island, site of New York City's "potter's field" cemetery.
Abby Luby, Westchester Guardian, p. 11.
December 22, 2011
Artists create many ways for us to remember the dead. But what about the dead who... disappear without a trace?
Jacky Bowring, Memory Connection Vol. 1
December 2011
Hart Island continues to fly under the radar as a kind of denial, eluding detection, resisting its place on the map of New York.
Jay Blotcher, Chronogram
November 30, 2011
There are many ways to describe Melinda Hunt’s 20-year effort to draw attention to the forgotten souls of New York City’s potter’s field: a multimedia installation, a crusade, an obsession.
Liz Giegerich, Patch
November 30, 2011
The Canadian-born artist has spent the last 20 years creating art that helps expose and identify some of the island’s anonymous dead.
Mary Garrigan, Rapid City Journal
November 15, 2011
Fifteen years after a Manhattan hospital sent her stillborn baby to New York City's potter's field for burial, MJ Adams heard the name Hart Island for the first time.
Alex Silverman, WCBS News
November 14, 2011
For years, Melinda Hunt had been documenting New York City’s forgotten burial ground in photographs and artwork.
Marcela Rojas, The Journal News
November 12, 2011
On the walls of visual artist Melinda Hunt's South Division Street studio hang haunting portraits of bodies drawn over a dusty and barren landscape.
Christopher Mathias, Huffington Post
October 31, 2011
A City Council oversight committee held a hearing Friday to review the operations...
Bob Hennelly, WNYC News
October 28, 2011
A City Council oversight committee is looking into the status of the Potter's Field cemetery at Hart Island...
New Filmmakers New York - You Tube
September 7, 2011
Hart Island: An American Cemetery at Anthology Film Archives Screening, New York City.
Debra Hornsby, Inspired: The Banff Centre
February 2011
A shadowy figure emerges from the charcoal pencil held in Melinda Hunt's hand.
Melinda Hunt, Hart Island Project
January 23, 2011
Unfortunately, it is all to common for veterans to be buried on Hart Island.
Scott Heidler, Al Jazeera English
December 12, 2010
You would be hard pressed to find someone amongst the millions of people in New York City who has heard of Hart Island.
Insel Der Toten: Begraben auf Hart Island vor New York(translation)
Stefan Braunshausen, ZDF/3sat Die Zeit
November 3, 2010
1500 Menschen werden auf Hart Island vor New York jährlich begraben - von Strafgefangenen. Auf der "Insel der Toten" landen Obdachlose, Drogensüchtige - die Ausgestoßenen der Gesellschaft.
Adam Geller, Associated Press
October 30, 2010
In fact, most New Yorkers have never heard of Hart Island. In a city of 8.5 million lives, such a place may be a necessity. But it is one long deemed off-limits, home to stories better left untold.
Mariah Summers, New York Press
October 15, 2010
Last spring, Jacqueline Quiroz gave birth to her son, Elijah Romero, a stillborn...
Alix Finkelstein, American Arts Quarterly
Summer 2010, Volume 27 Number 3
Seeking to reclaim individuals “beyond recognition,” artist Melinda Hunt has spent two decades...
Yuval Rosenberg, WNYC News
August 2, 2010
Felix Wadewitz, New York German Press translation
July 7, 2010
Nathan Duke, New York Times Ledger
May 13, 2010
Leigh Remizowski, New York Daily News
May 4, 2010
Andy Newman, The New York Times
April 23, 2010
Linda Frye Burnham , Community Arts News
April 16, 2010
Reuven Blau, New York Post
September 13, 2009
Jim Hoffer, ABC News
June, 2009
John Deutzman, Fox 5 Investigators
May 23, 2009
John Deutzman, Fox 5 Investigates
January 12, 2009
Michael Greenberg, Times Literary Supplement
September 26, 2008
Cara Buckley, New York Times
March 24, 2008
Jim Hoffer, Eyewitness News Investigators
February 19, 2008
Nick Stillman, NYFA Current
December 5, 2007
Sewall Chan, New York Times
November 26, 2007