Upcoming Exhibits
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SDA 2025 Symposium - All Hands: Crafting Connections
Together We Can: Collaborative Art for Collective Change
Online Symposium Talk with Cecily Miller Feb 1, 2:45pm
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Using techniques drawn from traditional fiber arts – crochet, beading, processing raw materials into “yarn” – and women’s practices of crafting in social gatherings, Lougee and Miller engage diverse participants to create large scale, labor intensive public art pieces with a message. What kind support – resources, individuals, organizational partners – are necessary to ensure success? What are the benefits and challenges of large scale community based projects and activist content?
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@ Hudson Guild Gallery II, New York
Water’s Voice Feb 6 – Apr 22
Opening ReceptionThur Feb 6, 5:30–7pm
Viewing Hours Tues-Fri, 10–5pm and by appt
Guild Gallery II, 119 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10011
Hudson Guild presents two exhibits as part of its Art in Response initiative -- a series of exhibits in which artists examine issues of social and political importance to our community. The art in these shows asks what the Climate Crisis means in our lives, and inspires us to see beyond despair.
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@ NAVE Gallery, Somerville MA
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Apr 11 – May 11
Opening ReceptionFri Apr 11, 6–9pm
Visual Artists Re-envision the Container – part of the Gather Fiber Symposium.
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@ Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown MA
INTERWOVEN: Textile Artists and Climate Change Mar 7 – Apr 25
Artist TalkTue Apr 8, 5:30–7pm
Part of the Gather Fiber Symposium.
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Gather Fiber Symposium April 2025
I’m excited to be an artist advisor for this month-long exploration and celebration of fiber and textile art in Greater Boston.
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@ Snow Farm, Williamsburg MA
Revitalized Sculpture: Fiber Art Techniques with Repurposed Materials June 6 – 8
In this workshop, students will learn fiber art techniques while working with post consumer materials. Students will explore methods for building with fabric, paper and wire, soft sculpture techniques, creating fiber from plastic and incorporating found objects.
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Community Tapestry at Magazine Beach
Michelle Lougee and curator Cecily Miller are teaming up with the community to create a tapestry and mosaic made up of post-consumer waste. The finished tapestry will hang in Mass Audubon's new Nature Center in the historic 1818 granite Powder Magazine which gives the park its name.
This collaborative art project will warn of the environmental dangers of plastic, while celebrating the Magazine Beach park. Morse School students; volunteers from MBP, CRC, Mass Audubon, Riverside Boat Club, Gallery 263 and other neighbors; and Cambridge Community Art Center teens will all contribute to the Tapestry, which will be unveiled at the Powder Magazine in July.
The organizers are raising project funds for art-making workshops run by teens from the Community Arts Center and other outreach/education activities through Go Fund Me; please consider making a donation at gofundme.com/f/magazine-beach-community-tapestry. The Tapestry was awarded a start-up grant from the Mass Cultural Council and Magazine Beach Partners is facilitating a gift specifically for this project, but more is needed to pull off it off.
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Magazine Beach | Plastic Tapestry Project
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Guest on the Salvage Podcast
Hosted by Natalya Khorover, Salvage is a podcast of conversations with artists using repurposed materials for their art practice.
Persistence: A Community Responds to Pervasive Plastic
An introduction to a collaborative public art project led by artist-in-residence Michelle Lougee and public art curator Cecily Miller. Persistence is part of the Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture's ongoing Pathways Public Art Program. Through Michelle's residency, over 100 people of all ages contributed to a project that transformed thousands of single use plastic bags into art for the Minuteman Bikeway. Fabricated using basic crochet techniques, the sculpture is inspired by organic forms, including single cell organisms found naturally in water.
The project message is that single use plastic persists in our environment for more than 100 years, breaking down into microplastics that enter the food chain and, ultimately, our own bodies. Persistence will be required to reduce plastic waste, but this is essential to preserve human and environmental health. Persistence was also required for the project volunteers, who continued to participate during the COVID-19 pandemic despite many challenges. The vibrant display of large scale sculpture, installed in trees along the Bikeway near Spy Pond, demonstrates the amazing things we can accomplish working together.