Born 1981, Long Beach, California, USA 
      Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, USA
 
     Through handmade paper, artist’s books, and environmental works my  practice navigates our planet from atmosphere to core, examining  ecological history and visualizing predictions of future global change. Read More 
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        If All Else Fails... 
Group Exhibition 
      May 31 - June 2, 2013 
      Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL 
      Speaker:         "Still on Terra Firma?: The American Landscape in Contemporary Art."  
        February 2014         
        College Art Association 2014 Conference, Chicago, IL 
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    RECENT NEWS 
    "Artists’ Book by Maggie Puckett Purchased During Printed Matter Book Art Fair."  
      Kathleen Beste, InterArts & CBPA Newsfeed 
      March 22, 2013 
       
    "An Interview with Maggie Puckett."  
    Mirabelle Jones, The Book Art Blog 
    November 24, 2012 
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            COMING SOON... 
              Jungle Occupation 
                2013 
                  handmade paper 
                   
                  Jungle Occupation is a collection of portraits and landscapes related to environmental  destruction in the Amazon rainforest and those who protest it. 
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            WALL MAP 
              The Scream of the Arctic 
                2013 
                  handmade paper (fibers:  abaca, flax, cotton, wheat straw, linen,  cattail seeds and reeds,  desert agave; inclusions: soil, desert sand,  beach sand, leaves, red and green marine algae, lobster shell, campfire  charcoal; pigments), pva 
                  70 x 93 x 1 inches (installed; composed of 9 panels each 22 x 30 inches)  | 
            ARTIST'S BOOK 
              Homeland 
              2013 
              30 different specimens of handmade paper (fibers: abaca, flax, cotton, wheat straw, linen, cattail seeds and reeds, desert agave; inclusions: soil, red and green marine algae, lobster shell, desert sand, beach sand, campfire charcoal; pigments), waxed linen thread, pva; ink-jet printed title page, diagram, and colophon 2013 7.5 x 50 x 2 inches (flat)  | 
           
          
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            ARTIST'S BOOK 
              Thaw 
                2010 - Ongoing 
                handmade paper (cotton, flax, plant greens, pigment), thread, twigs  | 
            BODY OF WORK 
              ANTHROPOCENE 
                ANTHROPOCENE is an interdisciplinary  body of work combining art and science to explore the complicated  history and future of anthropogenic effects on the Earth’s systems. This  project is partially supported by a grant from the Albert P. Weisman  Award, a private trust affiliated with Columbia College Chicago.  | 
            WALL MAP 
              Future Under Climate Tyranny (F.U.C.T) 
              (A 4° C warmer world) 
                2011 
            handmade paper (abaca, cotton, flax, wheat straw, beach and desert sand,  soil, marine plastic, dried anchovies, dried shrimp, feather boa  seaweed, dried garden plants, vegetable seeds, pigment), pva, acrylic  | 
           
          
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            ARTIST'S BOOK 
              Fire to Fire: From the Big Bang to the Red Planet: A Timeline of the Earth’s Past, Present, and Future in Paper 
                2011 
                handmade paper (abaca, cotton, flax, linen, campfire charcoal, red and green marine algae, lobster shell, dried anchovies, roots, ants, shed snakeskin, feathers, pressed flowers, fur and leather, egg shells, vegetable seeds, ground cloves, litter, coarse desert sand, beach sand, pigment), commercial paper, thread, pva, ink  | 
            ARTIST'S BOOK 
              Salty: LICK THIS BOOK 
                2011 
                handmade papers (cotton, abaca, sea salt, table salt, pigment), thread, squid tentacles, pva  | 
            ARTIST'S BOOK 
              Soil Horizons 
                2011 
                handmade paper (abaca, cotton, flax, berries, plant greens, dead leaves, roots, soil, desert sand, pigment), thread, pva, hemp cords   | 
           
          
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