About the Artist
Maggie Sasso, b. 1983 in Almo, KY, is a full-time soft sculpture and textiles artist.
Sasso has exhibited nationally most notably at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in 2019 and Sculpture Milwaukee in 2020. She was the recipient of a Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual Artists in 2015. Sasso received her BFA from Murray State University in 2006, and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2010. Her studio is located in Milwaukee, WI.
Artist Statement
Producing conceptual bodies of work that examine the role of material culture through a textiles lens. Sasso renders moments of uncanny vastness as she presents the balance between difficult tragedy and humorous optimism. Her installations are tactile and penetrable, presenting objects as theatrical props and material relics and expressing macrocosmic ideas through microcosmic details. She finds Lake Michigan a vast and mesmerizing horizon line to meditate and project her narratives upon.
Workshops
Sasso has taught on and off throughout her career. She was an adjunct instructor and established the Textiles Lab at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She has a repertoire of workshops she is available to teach including Jazz Crochet, Inkle Band Weaving, Embroidered Badges, Basic Tapestry and Rope Making techniques.
Contact us to book her for a workshop!
Pictured: Maggie teaching Embroidered Badges as part of her Exhibiting Artist in Residence at the John Michael Kohler Art Center. She spent many days at the JMKAC Social STUDIO working with museum visitors, and went to local area schools to teach art students badge design and embroidery. The work was then displayed at JMKAC in the exhibit Magnified: Through the Eyes of Youth.
I humbly wish to convey that I recognize my white privilege and endeavor to meaningfully reflect upon and dismantle the social constructs that have bestowed upon me advantages and opportunities due to my skin color and nothing more.
I acknowledge that I make work on Native Land rightfully belonging to the Nations Sioux, Miami, Potawatomi, Pioria and Kickapoo.
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