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Marilyn Pappas

Textile artist Marilyn Pappas has had a ground breaking 60-year career, from her socially minded, garment-based work of the 1960s to her travel-inspired collages to her outsized textiles depicting sculptures of ancient goddesses. These three-dimensional figures, Pappas’s most recent body of work, stand at the intersection of sculpture and garment, as she imagines the ancient sculptures as they changed and survived over the centuries. At once timeless and highly relevant to today, Pappas’s forms chronicle the many stages of her life while offering powerful statements on the enduring strength, vibrancy, and resilience of women.A native of Brockton, Pappas was born in 1931, studied art at Massachusetts College of Art andDesign and Pennsylvania State University, and is a Professor Emerita from Massachusetts College ofArt and Design. She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, most recently the James Renwick Alliance for Craft 2024, Master of the Medium award. Her work is in several public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Museum of Arts and Design, the DeYoung Museum, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Pappas lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

 

 

“ The detail of Nevertheless She Persisted III: Hygeia with Snakesis derived from my stitched fabric relief depicting the ancient goddess Hygeia, the goddess of health… ”

THE PROJECT
Woven Forms 2 – Detail of Nevertheless She Persisted I : Hygeia with Snakes