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2025
Sanctity of Nature, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
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
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
2026
The Hospital of Emotions, Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles CA
Earth in the Balance: Artists’ Voices for the Planet, Interchurch Center, New York NY
2025
Navigating Art & Science, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester MA
Water’s Voice, Hudson Guild Gallery II, New York NY
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, NAVE Gallery, Somerville MA
INTERWOVEN: Textile Artists and Climate Change, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown MA
Dancing in the Dark, storefront art projects, Watertown MA
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
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
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
B. Amore The Carrier Bag Theory: Visual Artists Re-envision the Container, Art New England, May/June, 2025
Elemental: Work by Boston Sculptors Gallery Artists, Patch, May 8, 2025
Water’s Voice and Our Fragile Moment at Hudson Guild, Art Spiel, April 10, 2025
Cate McQuaid Fiber art has long been ‘treated as a little sister’ to fine art, Boston Globe, April 3, 2025
Jack Curtis, Nurture: Empathy for the Earth, Art New England, November/December 2024
Gateway Gallery presents the work of Michelle Lougee, Portsmouth Herald, October 2, 2024
Natalya Khorover, Host, Guest on the Salvage Podcast, October, 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
M.F.A. Sculpture, Boston University, Boston MA, 1994
B.F.A. Sculpture, Minor in Art History, Boston University, Boston MA, 1989
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
2025
2023
2022
2026
Workshop, Sustainable Fiber Sculpture, Snow Farm, Williamsburg MA
2025
Workshop, Revitalized Sculpture: Fiber Art Techniques with Repurposed Materials, Snow Farm, Williamsburg MA
Symposium Talk with Cecily Miller, Together We Can: Collaborative Art for Collective Change, Surface Design Association 2025 Symposium – All Hands: Crafting Connections
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
2020
Membership Coordinator and Committee Chair, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA
2019
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
2014
2013
Visiting Artist Program, Art Institute of Boston, Boston MA
Slide presentation and guest critic
2012
2009
2006
2004-2009
