Margot E. Stage
Selected Exhibitions
* Solo or two-person shows
2021 How the Light Gets In, Studios Without Walls Brookline, MA
2021 Provincetown Art Association Members Juried Show, Provincetown, MA
2019 A Seat at the Table, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate, Boston, MA
2019 Serious Fun, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
2019 Provincetown Art Association Members Juried Show, Provincetown, MA
2019 BLUE Juror: Sarah Montross, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2018 Provincetown Art Association Members Juried Show, Provincetown, MA
2017 Point of View, Heritage Museum and Gardens, Sandwich, MA
2016 Telling America’s Stories: National Parks at 100, The Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA
2019-2009 Sculpture Walk at Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, MA
2015 Grief and Healing, Maud Morgan Center for the Arts, Cambridge, MA
2015 Art Rocks Spy Pond, Arlington, MA
2014 Larger Than the Sum of Its Parts, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell College, Newton, MA
*2013 What’s Left Behind Conant Gallery, Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA
*2013 Shiroito Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
2013 Art in the Park Jurors: Anna Stothart, John Ventimiglia, Murray Dewart. Worcester, MA
*2013 Fiber X2: Margot Stage and Stacey Piwinski, Chelmsford Center for the Arts
Chelmsford, MA
2013 A Room of Our Own, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2013, 2012 Appearances An Environmental Arts Festival, Provincetown, MA
*2012 Fibrous Forms, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
*2011 Fibrous Forms, Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
*2010 Fibrous Forms, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA
2012 BLUE Juror: Joseph Thompson. Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2011 RED Juror: Howard Yezersky Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2011 Northeast Prize Show Juror: Theodore Stebbins Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge,MA
2011 Art in Nature, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
2010 75th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
*2010 Cycles and Seasons, The Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell, MA
*2009 Safe Havens on the Edge of Wilderness, Moose Hill Audubon Sanctuary, Sharon, MA
*2009 Looking Up: Nests and Skies, Indian Hill Music Center, Littleton, MA
2008 Women of Cloth, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA
*2008 Nature Reveals, The Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell, MA
2008 Art at the Statehouse, The Office of Senator Steven Panagiotakos, Boston, MA
2006 Form, Not Function, Carnegie Center for the Arts, New Albany, IN
2006 Quotations Beautiful from Minds Profound, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA
*2005 Featured Artist Gallery on the Plaza, Art Institute of New England, Brookline, MA
*2004 A Textured Voice: Margot Stage solo, The Cool Corner Gallery, Lowell, MA
2004 People, The DeCordova Museum School Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2004 Abstractions, The DeCordova Museum School Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2004 Art Quilts at Amherst Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA
2002 Art Quilts at the Whistler, The Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
2000 Artists in Refuge, The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
Awards and Grants
Residency at The Studios, MassMoCA, 2020, 2019, 2016, 2015
STARS Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2016, 2015, 2014
Lowell Cultural Council Grant, 2013, 2009
Assets for Artists 2011
First Place, Westford Regional Art Event, Parish Center for the Arts, Westford, MA, 2009, 2004
Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center Grant, 2007
Groton Cultural Council Grant, 2007
Judges Choice Award, The Nautilus Project, Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, MA, 2005
Juror and Curatorial Experience
Juror for Fabrication of the Imagination, Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA, 2013, 2012
Curator for Scrolls: A Fiber Interpretation, Western Avenue Studios, Lowell, MA, 2007
Curator for Quotations Beautiful from Minds Profound, Western Avenue Studios,
Lowell, MA, 2006
Curator for A Journey of Journals, Fletcher Memorial Library, Westford, MA, 2005
Teaching Experience
Private Artist’s Coach, 2018
Compass Program Lowell, MA, 2016
Ourselves, Our Lives: Self Portraits in Cloth Lowell High School, Lowell, MA, 2013-2017
What’s Left Behind, Community Collaboration, Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA, 2013
Three Dimensional Play, Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, MA, 2013
Invitational Artist Demo, Melrose Arts, Melrose, MA, 2013
Gelatin Printmaking, Lowell Boys and Girls Club, Lowell, MA, 2010
Self-Portraits in Cloth, Lowell Boys and Girls Club, Lowell, MA, 2010
Free Summer Art Program at Western Avenue Studios, Lowell, MA, 2008-2009
Private fiber art lessons 2008
Creative Collaborations Owen Shulman Gallery, Groton Public Library, Groton, MA 2007
Bibliography
The Lowell Sun “Piece by piece, the art of communication” 4/16
10 Years of The Artists’ Professional Toolbox, cover photo, featured artist 11/15
The Lowell Sun “Finding Beauty in ‘What’s Left Behind’ ” 1/13
The MetroWest Daily “Accentuating the Excellent at Fruitlands Museum” 4/11
The Westford Eagle “Couple Takes the Artist’s Path” 4/11
The Lowell Sun “Western Avenue show explores life cycles” 7/10
The Lowell Sun “For fiber artist, inspiration is looking up” 5/09
The Lowell Sun “Fiber and photos are a natural fit” 7/08
The Boston Globe “Artists unroll a view of scrolls” 6/07
The Lowell Sun “Quilt meets scroll at Western Ave show” 7/07
The Middlesex Beat “Quilters cross the line to fine art” 10/06
The Middlesex Beat “Quotations Beautiful from Minds Profound” 9/06
The Lowell Sun Spotlight: “Broadcasting loud and clear” 11/05
The Ithaca Journal “Fabric shows the way in Groton juried quilt show” 6/05
The Ithaca Journal “Best Bets: Small Art Quilt Works Show returns to Main Street Gallery” 6/05
Fiber Arts Magazine “Art Quilts New England” Jan/Feb 05
Boston Sunday Globe “Quilt shows cover it all, from the visionary to the colorful” 9/04
The Boston Phoenix “Margot Stage’s The Mill” 9/04
The Lowell Sun “Piece work – Margot Stage” 8/04
The Lowell Sun “Art Quilts: new materials in traditional medium” 8/04
The Westford Eagle “Local radio personality displays her ‘textured voice’ 8/04
The Lowell Sun “All stitched together” 7/04
The Lowell Sun “An artist of sound and sight” 7/04
Selected Publications
“At Dune’s Edge” Wild Apples Journal Fall/Winter 2010
“Memory Shawls” Wild Apples Journal Spring/Summer 2009
“Pacem in Terris” Wild Apples Journal 2005
“Spoons” Renovation Journal
Arts Feature Writer The Middlesex Beat 2000-2003
Feature Writer The Boston Globe Wedding Supplement 2000
Feature writer and photographer Nashoba Publications 1999-2000
Columnist The Westford Eagle 1997-1999
Commissions and Collections
Waters of March, Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell, MA 2016
Untied, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA corporate loan 2015 – 2016
Untied, Lando & Anastasi, Cambridge, MA corporate loan 2015
Annual Award, Free Software Foundation, Boston, MA 2013 – 2010
Reflections of Lowell, S. Kirschbaum, Lowell, MA 2012
Shawn’s Sisters, N. Hartnett, Wellesley, MA 2012
Bob’s Field of Dreams, M. Rosen, Weston, MA 2011
Ties That Bind, L. Komack, Natick, MA 2010
The Mill, Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union, Lowell, MA 2009
Community Ties, Enterprise Bank, Lowell, MA 2009
The Acre through the Ages, Coalition for a Better Acre, Lowell, MA 2009
Low Tide, Enterprise Bank, Lowell, MA 2006
Numerous private collections
Affiliations
Provincetown Art Association
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Education
The Artist’s Professional Toolbox, Boston, MA 2011
Assets for Artists, Lowell, MA 2011
The DeCordova Museum School 2004
Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Bachelor of Arts with Honors 1973