Merill Comeau
Bibliography:
2024 Canvas Rebel, Meet Merill Comeau, March, 2024
TextileArtist.org, Merill Comeau: The Rebellious Stitcher, revised interview
2023 Surface Design Journal, Fall 2023, Exhibition in Print: Sustainable Practices, pg 47
Fibre Art: Take Two, Diane Franklin, A Review of 100: Marking the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Centennial
2022 ArtScope Magazine, A Welcomed Return: Diverse Danforth Annual Continues to Break New Ground
Artist In Residence Refections, National Historic Site Weir Farm, Weir Farm Alliance
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2021 Fibre Arts Australia, Volume 9, September, 2021
Textile Curator: Waking up the World to Contemporary Fiber Art, Merill Comeau
Vasari21, Adria Arch, Fantastical Threads, May 30, 2021
TextileArtist.org, Newsletter for Fiber Artists, How To Use Sketchbooks
Toby Crispy, Slow Stitch Thread of Connection, Obscura, February 2021
2020 Anton Repnikov, Commissioning Hope, Curating Awareness, VoCA blog, May 8, 2020
Cassie Sim, Weaving Stories: The Narrative Power of Fiber Art, Mutual Art, March 24, 2020
Grace Griffin, This Artist is enlisting ICA visitors for her ‘portrait of the community quilt’, The Boston Globe, February 21, 2020
2019 Jay Sugarman, Human Impact: Stories of the Opioid Epidemic, video panel discussion, Museum Open House, newTV
Human Impact: Stories of the Opioid Epidemic, Exhibition Catalogue, Fuller Craft Museum, 2019, pg 17
Lauren Sinner, Exposure, Surface Design Journal, Winter 2019, pg. 30
Harriet Cheney, Textile Study Group of New York blog, inaugural blog re-launch, 2019, https://www.tsgny.org/merillcomeau-blog
Joe C., Merill Comeau Honors the Past Through Repurposed Textiles, Mobi Spirit blog, December 20, 2019
Cate Coulacos Prato, Art Cloth Network Artist Profile, Quilting Arts, August/Sept 2019, pgs 35-39
FI2019: An Exhibition of Contemporary Fiber Art, Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, 2019
Merill Comeau: from concept to creation, TextileArtist.org, 2019
Isabel Barbi, Taking Form: Fibers and Fabric Art at Galatea Fine Art, ArtScope, 3.26.19
2018 Merill Comeau: the act of stitching, TextileArtist.org, 2018
Brian Goslow, Stitch at New Art: Creating Conversation, ArtScope, Mar/Apr 2018, pg. 53
Cate McQuaid, A STITCH IN TIME: Exhibit Embraces Textiles Meaning, Social History, 2.28.18
Emily Reily, Artists use clothing and sticky notes to suggest ‘Possible Subject Positions’, New Hampshire Union Leader, 1.3.2018
2017 E. Ashley Rooney, Artistry in Fiber: Wall Art, Vol 1., Schiffer Publishing, pages 54-5, 2017
Stephanie Kim, Artist Merill Comeau Weaves Family and Art, the hour, 2.2017
Megan Smith-Harris, On Edge, Wilton Magazine, Winter 2016-2017, page 56
2016 Jacquelyn Jarnagin, Making Sense of the World, Beacon-Villager, 11.3.2016, pages 5,8.
Merill Comeau, An Artist at ArtSpace Maynard, Tells Stories Through Art, The Palette, International Art Materials Association, 11.16.16
Brad Avery, Counting the Strokes, The Herald News, July 28, 2016
Natasha Geffen, Wicked Local, Danforth Juried Show is Handpicked and Fresh, 7.10.16
Anne Lee & Ashley Rooney, Fiber Art Now, Threads of Social Justice: Conversations with Merill Comeau, Chiachio & Giannone, & Glenda Richardson, Spring 2016, pg 42-44
10 Years of the Artists’ Toolbox, Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston
2015 Emma, L’artiste du Vendredi, Merill Comeau Une artiste textile qui utilise des vêtements déstructurés puis cousus et peints, L’Atelier d Emma
2014 Martin Roux, Quinquabelle, Une artiste textile qui utilise des vêtements déstructurés puis cousus et peints, 12.2014
Experimenting with Fiber: UnRaveled, Maine Today, 2014
Visual Arts at Pine Manor, Pine Manor College Bulletin, Fall 2014, page 13
The Fabric of Life, Caroline Cunningham, New England Home, May-June 2014, pages 40-44
Meredith Cutler, ArtScope, Renewal: Motherbrook Arts Flirts with a New Direction, Mar/Apr 2014, page 10
La tela escrita, Blogspot, 2014
Ellen Katz, Textile Adventures: Merill Comeau Fragments of Eden, File Under Fiber, Blogspot, 201
MetroWest Daily News, Chris Bergeron, At Danforth, 2 Artists Defy Conventions, 1.19.14
2013 The Hippo, Kelly Sennot, How Yesterday’s Castoffs Become Tomorrow’s Treasures, 2013
World of Threads, Weekly Fibre Artists Interviews, Artist: Merill Comeau, Gareth Bates and Dawn Rudman, 2013
Martha Wakefield, The Importance of a Self Coaching Group, Blogspot, 2013
Maynard Visual Art Windows, Merill Comeau ArtSpace, 5.2013
Weekly Wrap Up, Flux Boston, Boston.com, April 22-May 2nd 2013
Concord Journal, A Room of Our Own, 2013
2012 UUWorld, Fall 2012, page 16, My Heart Bleeds for You III, illustration
Leanne Jewett, Merill Comeau: Making Sense of the Complex, Fiber Art Now, Summer 2012
Weekly Recycle Art Links, The Art of Recycling, 7.20.12
Metrowest Daily News, Danforth’s Off the Wall Exhibit is Chock Full of Treasures, 6.3.12
Textile Art Center, NY, Reusing, Recycling Textiles, May 2012
Artscope blog, April 2012
2011 Step Program, Stonehill Blogspot, November 2011
Writing Without Paper, Second Life, blogspot, 12.11.2012
Sara Hansen, Works of a Healing Nature, FiberArts, Sara Hansen, Summer 2011, page 21
Natick Patch, Local Artist Creates Masterpieces from Scraps, 1.11.11
The Garden Club of the Back Bay, Tree Pieces: Painted Fabric Collages by Merill Comeau, 2.22.11
Linda Branch Dunn blogspot, Merill Comeau, 3.12.12
Nano Interview with Merill Comeau, ArtSake Blog, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 3.11.11
Ashley Rooney, 100 Artists of New England, Schiffer Publishing, ISBN 9780764336652, 2.2011
2010 Brian Goslow, Capsule Preview, ArtScope Magazine, November/December 2010, pages 50-51
Margaret Smith, Cycles and Seasons in Art Show, wickedlocal.com, Margaret Smith, Thursday, 10.21.10
“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it” Confucius, NorthWest Life, Magazine, 4.2010, page 46
Margaret Smith, Fiber Collages, wickedlocal.com, Thursday, 1.21.10, page 39
Wild Apples: a journal of nature, art and inquiry, Fall/Winter 2010, Issue Four: Thread, Fiber, Cloth, illustrations: inside cover, pg 32, pg 33
2009 Finch, Jessica, Home is Where the Art Is, Catalogue of Artwork for the Family House at 241 Kent Street, Children’s
Hospital, Boston, 2009, pages 22-23
Garth Johnson, 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, Quarry Press, Quayside Publishing Group, 2009, page 49
Deborah Santoro, Merill Comeau Bloom, 8.17.09
2008 Jeanne Williamson, Women of Cloth, Blogspot, March 7, 2008
Steven T. Zevitas, Studio Visit, Open Studio Press, Volume 3, 2008, page 42-43
Jennifer Perelie, Mixed Media Artist, 9.26.08
Rosemary Noon, From A Fixed Point: New Art from the Old North Bridge, Exhibition Catalogue, Regis College, Fine Arts Center, Weston, MA, 2008, page 3-4
Publications
2019 From Concept to Completion, TextileArtist.org
2018 Conference Abstract: Merill Comeau, Socio-cultural trends in the development of contemporary art and design: IV International Scientific and Practical Conference, Design Dept. KNTU and Kherson Art Museum, Ukraine
Under Foot, Boston Arts Review, Issue 1, Spring 2018, pages 52-53
2017 Some Semblance Of, exhibition catalogue, 2017
2016 The Farm, Catherine Armsden, House Stories
2013 A Room of Our Own: Eleven Artists, One Self-coaching Group, exhibition catalogue, Concord Art Association, 2013
2009 Fiber and Stitch Collage: A Study of Nature, Quilting Arts Magazine, Interweave Press, Issue 38, April/May 2009, pages 42-47
Videos
Artist in Residence Video, National Historic Site Weir Farm, Weir Farm Alliance
Interview with Jodi Colella, Outer Threads, Three Stones Gallery
Two Friends/One Exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum Craft Chat
Museum Open House, Jay Sugarman, Human Impact: Stories of the Opioid Epidemic
What's Your Story: Creating a Family Mission and Portrait
A Room of Our Own, facilitator, panel discussion