As part of this season’s outdoor art exhibition, Human |Nature, visitors have the opportunity to watch artist Michelle Lougee install her larger-than-life crocheted sculpture Chrysalis, and to interact with her during this fascinating process.

Free with museum admission. No advanced registration required.

Michelle Lougee

Crocheted from post-consumer plastic bags, Michelle Lougee’s sculptures address the impact of our consumerist society on nature. Lougee transforms this “trash” into forms taken directly from nature. Her artwork has been shown at Kunstverein Teirgarten in Berlin, Convento de Santo Domingo Qorikancha in Cusco, Peru, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Art Complex Museum, and the Trustman Gallery at Simmons College. In addition, she teaches sculpture at Lesley University School of Art and Design and is a member of Boston Sculptors Gallery. She lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.