Upcycled, Recycled and Repurposed Pieces by Elizabeth Morisette

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Elizabeth Morisette is a 1994 graduate of North Carolina State University

College of Design and received a MFA in Community Arts from Maryland

Institute College of Art in 2007. She has been exhibiting her recycled

weavings and sculptures throughout the country for 25 years. In the Fall of

2020 her work was featured in Glamour, Hyperallergic, and the Guardian

for her sculptural masks. She was also featured in the April/May 2008 issue

of American Craft Magazine and an April 2009 article in the New York

Times.

An important aspect of Morisette’s work is the use of recycled or

repurposed materials. Her work always uses materials with a history. In

the 21st Century, the items one acquires are more plentiful than ever.

Many of these items are not precious or even necessary; they just

accumulate in ones home and office. In her work she is asking: How do the

items we acquire define us individually and as a society? What happens to

these items, which were once essential, when they are no longer needed?

Like a modern-day Archeologist, Morisette explores these items, collects

them and then manipulates them, bringing machine made and handmade

together to ask how our possessions define us.

Bringing Art to the Community is also an important part of Morisette’s

career. She has worked as an Artist in Residence for the Maryland State

Arts Council, The JCC of Greater Baltimore, New Belgium Brewery, and Fort

Lewis College. She also taught classes in the Arts Leadership and Fibers

Department at Colorado State University. Morisette continues to teach

classes at the Rivendell School and the Denver Art Museum