Instructor: Mike Wright
Monday & Wednesday
July 1 & 3
9am - 12pm
2 sessions
Open Studio: Tuesday, July 2, 9am - 12pm

Do you have the modernist impulse to combine disparate elements of castoff materials? Do you subscribe to the recycling aesthetic and have a growing collection of wood or plastic? Would you like to know how decisions are made in the assemblage process? Do you have anxiety about using small power tools? This class is for you! We will use your collection of found wood or other materials, as well as some wood pieces I will supply, and experiment with assembling these materials into ironic, witty and surprising objects d’art. We will discuss the history of assemblage, considered one of the two most important innovations in modern art, the other being abstraction.

Sculptor Mike Wright had a solo exhibition, WOOD works at the Cotuit Center for the Arts in 2022. She was invited in 2019 by the Edward Gorey House Museum, to create sculpture from materials collected by Gorey, for the exhibition and fundraiser “Goreyosity”. Included in the 2017 invitational show “Wood as Muse” at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, she was interviewed about her art on “Open Studio” by Jared Bowen, Executive Arts Editor of WGBH.

In 2017, she was invited by the JFK Hyannis Museum to participate in “Art Inspired by a Presidential Home” and create art from materials salvaged from the renovation of JFK and Jackie Kennedy’s home on the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis, MA. She had a solo exhibition in 2016 at the St. Botolph Club, Boston MA, and a solo exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 2015. She won a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2014. She was the Cape Cod Community College “Artist in Residence” in 2009, and won the Michael E. Deluty Outstanding Sculpture Prize at the CAA National Competition in 2007.She was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in 2006. She won the 1999 National Competition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, which resulted in a solo exhibition. For 30 years Mike has exhibited her sculptures in numerous solo, invitational, juried and group exhibitions. Her work is in the collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the collection of the Cape Cod Museum of Art and many private collections. She is represented by Alden Gallery in Provincetown.