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Art Meets Activism

Michelle Lougee and Resa Blatman create works that bring the environmental crisis to the fore. Boston University CFA magazine, Summer 2023

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.

Trash to Treasure: Michelle Lougee An interview with Natalie Bennett.

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.