Upcoming Exhibits
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@ NAVE Gallery, Somerville MA
The Carrier Bag Theory Apr 11 – May 11
Opening ReceptionFri Apr 11, 6–9pm
Visual Artists Re-envision the Container – part of the Gather 2025 Fiber 2025 Symposium.
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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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@ Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown MA
INTERWOVEN: Textile Artists and Climate Change Mar 7 – Apr 25
Artist TalkTue Apr 8, 5:30–7pm
Zoom TalkApr 22, 7:30–8:30pm
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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@ storefront art projects, Watertown MA
Dancing in the Dark Apr 5 – Apr 26
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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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Recent Press
Guest on the Salvage Podcast
Hosted by Natalya Khorover, Salvage is a podcast of conversations with artists using repurposed materials for their art practice.
Art Meets Activism
Michelle Lougee and Resa Blatman create works that bring the environmental crisis to the fore. Boston University CFA magazine, Summer 2023
Interview for Green + Just Magazine
Hosted by Joana Alarcão
WCVB5 Chronicle - Viewing a nocturnal art exhibition in Cape Anne
They are calling it the “Year of Light” at the Manship Artists Residency and Studios featuring a series of events and installations around the theme of fireflies. The show, A Light on Mars, is inspired by his love of Gloucester’s night skies and the fireflies that twinkle on his lines. Specific pieces were created by artists from the Boston Sculptors Gallery.
Spotlight Preview - Art New England Nov/Dec 2021
Our Tangled Choices: Art and the Environment - B. Amore
"Lougee is a magician who transforms discarded materials into extraordinary aesthetic comments on the ecological disasters we're courting.
Plastic is persistent. And so were organizers of this Arlington art installation
By Cate McQuaid
ARLINGTON — Plastic persists, breaking down into microplastics, which fish eat — and if we eat fish, we also eat plastic. But there’s another reason “Persistence: A Community Response to Pervasive Plastic,” an installation by Michelle Lougee along the Minuteman Bikeway, got its title.
“It’s also the persistence it took everyone to get through this time, and who helped our project persist,” said organizer Cecily Miller, public art curator for the Arlington Commission of Arts & Culture.
Open Studio with Jared Bowen - S10 Ep14
Alight on MARS, Actor Alan Cumming and NPR Host Ari Shapiro
Host Jared Bowen reviews the Boston Sculptors night exhibition, “Alight on MARS” in Gloucester.
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.
Talk of the Town - Arlington Community Media
Talk of the Town welcomes Arlington Arts Commissioner Cecily Miller and Artist-in-Residence Michelle Lougee into the studio to discuss the public art installation Michelle will be bringing to the Minuteman bike path by next fall. They share the overarching vision of the piece, and also describe just how town residents can take part in a true community endeavor.
Crocheting Plastic Into Sculpture, A Cambridge Artist Calls For Environmental Action
Artist Michelle Lougee’s work is “suggestively biomorphic and organic, belying the synthetic material she uses,” writes Pamela Reynolds.
Art and Nature: A Special Exhibit
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations Science for the Public, Belmont MA
Boston artists Susan Heideman and Michelle Lougee both offer a very creative view of natural forms – organisms, plants, minerals and micro to macro. They discuss their individual artistic approaches to Nature’s variety.
Inspired by an ocean of trash
Professor Michelle Lougee’s sculptures make powerful statement against plastic.
Environmental artist makes a statement with crocheted plastic sculptures
An interview with Lesley University faculty and Cambridge-based artist Michelle Lougee about her sculpture made from post-consumer plastic bags.