Mixed media artist
Mary Therese Wright
Mary Therese Wright
Bio
Wright’s artwork and community based projects have been shown throughout the United States.
In 1992, she was a co-founding director of Campicaso@, a traveling artist-run organization focused on connecting school age children through media and creativity. In 2001, Wright founded Gallery Wright, a brick and mortar retail exhibition and teaching space, representing 25 regional and national artists.
Wright has taught workshops for over 30 years in school systems, artist-run spaces and non-profits. Wright has served on Boards and Advisory Boards of local and state arts organizations and numerous Town committees.
For the past twenty something years, Mary has called a small Vermont town with a big lake, home.
Featured work
Mission statement
For me, creativity has been about as easy, intriguing, tricky, frustrating, fun and funny as putting a 1000 piece puzzle together without the boxtop image.
I started teaching myself to paint, sitting pond side in a section of Boston’s Emerald necklace in 1980. I asked complete novice questions of any artist I ran into, got better materials, went to museums, modeled for art classes, and I kept trying, trying, trying to capture the beauty of that pond.
Eventually I went back to college and got a BA in Art. In 1991 I graduated from Cranbrook with an MFA in metalsmithing.
Currently, I am working on a series of remembered landscapes. While most of the paintings are of a body of water, it is not that little pond from long ago, but I am revisiting some of the same awkward materials from those early pond days. Water media on newsprint, it’s still pretty much uncontrollable.