Resume | Michelle Lougee | Sculptor, Environmental Artist

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Cambridge, MA 02139
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Solo Exhibitions

2024
- Intertwined, Gateway Gallery at Great Bay CC, Portsmouth NH
- reVisions, McCoy Art Gallery at Merrimack College, North Andover MA
2023
- Souvenirs and Castaways, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2022
- Community Tapestry at Magazine Beach, Cambridge MA
2021
- Our Tangled Choices: Art and the Environment, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester
- Boxed Art Gallery, Somerville MA
- ONCE, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2020
- Persistence, Artist-in-Residence, Arts Arlington, Arlington MA
2019
- Artist-in-Residence, Society for Arts and Crafts, Boston MA
2018
- Timber!, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2016
- Anthroplastique, Factory Mark Gallery, Framingham MA
- Contra Naturam, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2015
- Ubiquitous, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston MA
2013
- Cell by Cell, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
- Nature Matters, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown MA
2011
- Material Nature, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2010
- Children's Hospital, Boston MA
2009
- Gyre, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2007
- What Began, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
- Drawing on Nature, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown MA
2004
- Pomus Ingenium, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2003
- New England Currents, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
- Layers, Danforth Museum School, Framingham MA
1999
- Of the Earth, For the Earth NiskArt Gallery, Niskayuna NY
1998
- Natural Defenses, Danforth Museum School, Framingham MA

Two Person Exhibitions

2022
- Into the Biosphere, The Art Gallery at North Hill, Needham MA
2018
- Life of Forms, Chandler Gallery at Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge MA
- Biomorphic Alchemy, ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard MA
2016
- Biomorphic Alchemy, Dana Hall Art Gallery, Wellesley MA
2012
- Michelle Lougee, Sculpture, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham MA
2001
- Essential Nature, ArtsWorcester, Worcester MA
2000
- Explorations in Spirit and Nature, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington MA

Group Exhibitions

2024
- Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality, Hudson Valley MOCA<, Peekskill NY
- Shift North – Boston Sculptors Gallery, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury VT
- Nurture: Empathy for the Earth, University Hall Gallery, UMass, Boston MA
- Tapped In: Moving Hearts and Minds Through Art and Science, The Umbrella Arts Center, Concord MA
2023
- The Non-Human is Pushing Back, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
- Inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis, Cambridge Art @ Canal, Cambridge MA
- I3C @ Brickbottom, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville MA
2022
- Imbued: Artists & Materials, Suffolk University Art Gallery, Boston MA
- Treasured Trash, Heritage Museum & Gardens, Sandwich MA
- Boston Sculptors at 30!, Highfield Hall & Gardens, Falmouth MA
2021
- Joyful | Spaces of Gathering, Kimpton Nine Zero Hotel, Boston MA
- MARS Alight, Manship Artists Residency + Studios, Gloucester MA
- IMAGO Foundation for the Arts, Warren RI
- Vision 20/21: Found, Formed, Fused, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis MA
- Upsurge, Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport MA
- Upsurge Too, Storefront Art Projects, Watertown MA
- humanNATURE, Musa Collective, Boston MA
2020
- How Do We Relate to the Climate Crisis?, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge MA
2019
- Human | Nature, Heritage Museum, Sandwich MA
- Take it Outside, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA
- Material Lamentations: Art, Grief, and the Land, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge MA
- A Woman’s Work…, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell MA
- Opp♥sites Attract, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2018
- Stitch, New Art Center, Newton MA
- Evil Plastic – Art from Detritus, Viridian Artists, New York NY
2017
- Among Friends, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston MA
- In Deep Water, Flatrocks Gallery, Gloucester MA
2015
- Insight, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, Cambridge MA
- Boston Sculptors in Concord, Concord Art Association, Concord MA
- The Boston Sculptors Gallery at Chesterwood, Stockbridge MA
2014
- Ceramics en MASSe, Fifield Art Gallery, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston MA
- Visions/Visiones, Convento de Santo Domingo Qorikancha, Cusco Peru
- Transciptiones, ICPNA, Cusco Peru
- Ovid’s Girls, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin Germany
- Metamorphoses, Wichtendahl Galerie, Berlin Germany
- Ovid’s Girls Micro: Small – Scaled Works, Gallery Kayafas, Boston MA
- Ovid’s Girls, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
- Art Meets Science, MDI Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME
2013
- Convergence, Christian Science Plaza, Boston MA
- Unlimited, Unbound Visual Arts, Allston MA
- Blinded by Science, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester MA
2012
- Our Shared Planet, Lexington Arts & Crafts Society, Lexington MA
- Stirring the Waters | Between Two Bodies, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland OH
- Five From Here, Riverside Gallery, Cambridge MA
2011
- The Sixth Gyre: Art, Oceans, and Plastic Pollution, 5th International Debris Conference, Honolulu HI
2010
- Reshaping Reality, Brattleboro Museum & Art Complex, Brattleboro, VT
2009
- Trash Menagerie, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA
2006
- 360 Degrees, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA
2004
- Origins-Outcomes, Harbor Art Gallery, Boston MA
2003
- Collection Connection, Boston Sculptors at The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA
1999
- ArtsWorcester Biennial, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester MA
- Contemporary Sculpture, Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge MA
1998
- Visions of Worcester, Arts Worcester, Clark University, Worcester MA
- Individual Concerns, Gallery of Social and Political Art, Boston MA
1997
- Common Ground, Acton Arboretum, Acton MA

Awards

2022
- Artist's Resource Trust (A.R.T) Fund Award, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
2021
- Somerville Community Prize, 1st Place, Boxed Art Gallery
2000
- Blanche E. Colman Award, for the pursuit of creative work and study
1998
- Kinnicutt Award, Travel grant for study in Israel
1997
- Prize for Sculpture, Worcester Biennial, Worcester MA
1996
- Dory Boland Award, National Juried Exhibition Bristol Art Museum, Bristol RI
- Sculpture Award, Juried show, The Faulty Beagle Gallery, Kunkletown PA

Press

Gateway Gallery presents the work of Michelle Lougee, Portsmouth Herald, October 2, 2024
Solon Kelleher, Carrie Crane & Michelle Lougee at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, WBUR The ARTery's Weekend Preview, July 13, 2023
Steve Holt, Art Meets Activism, Michelle Lougee and Resa Blatman create works that bring the environmental crisis to the fore, Boston University CFA Magazine, Summer 2023
Sandra Mackus, Michelle Lougee haakt plastic micro-organismen, Textiel Plus magazine, Winter 2022
Marc Levy, Look closely at Magazine Beach’s bird tapestry for the ugly truth underlying the colorful image, Cambridge Day, July 26, 2022
Interview with WBZ Radio, Magazine Beach Tapestry, May 9, 2022
B. Amore, Spotlight Preview - Our Tangled Choices: Art and the Environment, Art New England, Nov/Dec 2021
KT Browne, The Secret Life of Plastic: Michelle Lougee’s Environmental Art in Arlington, Artscope, July/August 2021
Elena Morris, 6 Art Galleries to Safely Visit in Person This Winter, ArtsBoston, February 16, 2021
Jesse Collings, Local artists bring plastic works to Minuteman Bikeway, Cambridge Chronicle-Tab, December 17, 2020
Cate McQuaid, Plastic is persistent. And so were organizers of this Arlington art installation, Boston Globe, October 21, 2020
Arlington Community Media, Talk of the Town, December 3, 2019
Member Spotlight, Cambridge Art Association, November 25, 2019
Yvonne Stapp, Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Science for the Public, August 28, 2018
Check out Michelle Lougee’s Artwork, BostonVoyager.com, July 30, 2018
Inspired by an ocean of trash, Lesley University, July 10, 2018
Cate McQuaid, Liz Shepard and Michelle Lougee make the mundane memorable, Boston Globe, June 29, 2018
Pamela Reynolds, Crocheting Plastic Into Sculpture, A Cambridge Artist Calls For Environmental Action, WBUR The ARTery, June 16, 2018
Amelia Mason, 5 Things To Do This Weekend, From The Who’s ‘Tommy’ To Plastic Bag Sculptures, WBUR The ARTery, June 14, 2018
Flavia Cigliano, Microcosms of Life: Artspace Maynard’s Biomorphic Alchemy, Artscope, May/June 2018
Brian Goslow, Creating Conversation, Artscope, March/April 2018
Gail McCarthy, Art From the Deep, Gloucester Times, June 7, 2017
Cate McQuaid, Serious Subject Matter, Boston Globe, April 19, 2016
SC Johnson, 9 mind-blowing artworks using recycled plastic bags, Mother Nature Network, February 13, 2015
Puloma Ghosh, Ovid’s Girls: Boston/Berlin, Artscope, July/August 2014
Marc Levy, Nature from the unnatural gets monthlong show at Sowa gallery, Cambridge Day, November 13, 2013
Elizabeth Stickley, Nature Nurture, MetroWest Daily News, February 19, 2012
Cate McQuaid, Dreams, the bizarre, a gaze, Boston Globe, October 18, 2011
Cate McQuaid, A Flirtation With Desire, Boston Globe, February 22, 2007
Lauren O’Neal, Regional Reviews, Art New England, December/January 2005
Christine Temin, Sculptors Open With Surreal, Scientific Angles, Boston Globe, September 1, 2004
Leon Nigrosh, Origins-Outcomes: Windshield Residue and Bronze Pears, artsMEDIA, April 15, 2004
Chris Bergeron, Artists Seek a Balance…, MetroWest Daily News, March 10, 2002
Leon Nigrosh, Form and Chaos, Worcester Phoenix, April 12, 2001

Education

M.F.A. Sculpture, Boston University, Boston MA, 1994
B.F.A. Sculpture, Minor in Art History, Boston University, Boston MA, 1989

Teaching

2014 to Present
- Adjunct Professor Lesley University, Cambridge MA
  
  Courses: Drawing by Stitch + Thread, Principles of Perceptual Sculpture, Figure Drawing, Drawing Intensive, 3D Concepts, Intro to Sculpture
2007
- Artist Mentor, The Art Institute of Boston, MFA in Visual Arts Program
2000
- Teaching Associate of Art, Boston University School of Fine Arts
  
  Courses: Ceramics I and Ceramics II

Speaking Engagements and Demonstrations

2023
- Panel Discussion, Creating from the Unwanted, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA
2022
- Guest Jurist Junior Studio, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge MA
- Curator, Build and Lay Bare: Associate Members’ Group Exhibition, Boston Sculptors Gallery
- Artist Talk, The Art Gallery at North Hill, Needham MA
2021
- Waste Not, Want Not, Artist talk with Samantha Fields and Charlotte Milan
2020
- Membership Coordinator and Committee Chair, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2019
- Visiting Artist, MassArt Flexible Structures class, Society for Arts and Crafts, Boston MA
- Co-curator with Julie Croston, City Animals, Chandler Gallery at Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge MA
- Presentor, ArtTechPsyche, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
- Week-long Demonstration Residency, Interconnected, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA
- Interactions of Space Sculpture Workshop, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA
2016
- Demonstration and Artist Talk, Art from Reclaimed Objects: Jessica Straus and Michelle Lougee, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Guest Jurist Junior Studio, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge MA
2014
- RISCA 3-D Fellowship Panelist, Providence RI
- Moderated Artist Discussion, Blinded by Science, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester MA
2013
- Visiting Artist Program, Art Institute of Boston, Boston MA
  
  Slide presentation and guest critic
2012
- Panel discussion, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland OH
2009
- Artist as Activist presentation, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA
2006
- Visiting Artist Slide Presentation, Massachusetts College of Art
2004-2009
- Visiting Artist, Framingham Public Schools, Framingham MA