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MAGGIE PUCKETT
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Born 1981, Long Beach, California, USA
Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Investigating ecofeminist themes through papermaking, printmaking, artist's books, ceramics, and painting. Read More

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maggie.puckett@gmail.com
Instagram: @maggiepuck

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Arctic Flora and Fauna

A series of arctic sculptures highlighting flora and fauna vulnerable to climate change.

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Krampus of the First Snow
Clay, underglaze, glaze
12x4x4 inches
2023
Krampus of the Yule Comet
Clay, underglaze, glaze
12x4x4 inches
2023
Krampus of the Northern Lights
Clay, underglaze, glaze
12x4x4 inches
2023

Future Folklore

Future Folklore is a mixed-media body of work at the intersection of science, folklore, and feminism. A response to climate change, the work updates historical, patriarchal folklore around seasons, animals, and plants to meet the challenges of a warming planet.

     
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Artist Residency: KKV Grafik Malmö, Sweden
2022, Letterpress studio residency
Ecofeminist Seed Library: Resisting Patriarchy and Climate Collapse through Art and Ecological Biodiversity
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An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank

An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank tells the story of Seeds InService, a unique Chicago garden project by Maggie Puckett and Melissa H. Potter where plant fibers are cultivated for art works, research projects, and public interventions.

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Svalbard Seed Cultures Ark
2019 Deposit
Agri/Cultures.Seed-Links Exhibition
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ONGOING COLLABORATION

Seeds InService
2014-Ongoing

Seeds InService (SIS), a collaborative project of Melissa H. Potter and Maggie Puckett, grows papermaking plants in gardens curated around ecological and feminist themes including the effects of capitalism, colonization, militarism and climate change on women and other historically marginalized groups, local agricultural heritages, and biodiversity.
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Future Under Climate Tyrrany The Scream of the Arctic
INSTALLATION INSTALLATION INSTALLATION / ARTIST'S BOOK

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
68 x 123 x 1.5 inches (installed)

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)

A Slow Apocalypse
2014

Unlike the ultimate, sudden end, A Slow Apocalypse is a process, a journey. The itinerary includes extreme weather events, droughts, floods, sea level rise, wildfires, epidemics, and pollution. Based on prompts culled from a veritable glossary of ecological disruption and disaster, draw your version of a slow apocalypse on a variety of handmade paper.

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Thaw The Scream of the Arctic

WALL MAP

Psyche-Anthropocene Projection
2013

Psyche-Anthropocene Projection is a world map emotionally predicting the terrifying future of our planet’s biomes as they experience climate change. 

ARTIST'S BOOK

Thaw
2010 - Ongoing
handmade paper (cotton, flax, plant greens, pigment), thread, twigs, Plexi box
book: 6 x 4 x 2 inches (closed)
box: 8 x 8 x 8 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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Fire to Fire Salty Soil Horizons

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
36.5 x 7.5 x 2 inches (flat)

ARTIST'S BOOK

Salty: LICK THIS BOOK
2011
handmade papers (cotton, abaca, sea salt, table salt, pigment), thread, squid tentacles, pva
6 x 5 x 2 inches (closed)

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
6 x 5 x 4 inches (closed)

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anthropocene

BODY OF WORK

Indigenous Unite!
2013
handmade paper

Indigenous Unite!
is a collection of portraits and landscapes related to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest and those who protest it.

COMMUNITY PROJECT

Phyto-Paper

Phyto-Paper contains organic Lemon Queen sunflower seeds. This plant is known to absorb lead from soil, reducing the soil’s toxicity in a process called phytoremediation. Please plant these seeds in your neighborhood to reduce lead contamination in the soil.

INSTALLATION / ARTIST'S BOOK

The Big Here: Chicago
2014

The Big Here: Chicago is a dynamic participatory installation of 35 questions set on handmade paper designed to test and increase ecological awareness. With each question articulated on paper made out of organic fibers that amplify the question’s content, visitors are encouraged to write and draw answers directly on the installation, which will ultimately be bound into an artist’s book. 

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ARTISTS' BOOK

Total Ocean Recall
2010
handmade paper with ink and colored pencil drawings by community members, drum leaf binding
96 pages

   
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