Meg Black

Meg Black has been a practicing artist working with natural fibers for over thirty years. As one of a handful of artists working in this exploratory medium, she has become something of a pioneer, internationally recognized by galleries and collectors alike. Her focus on nature’s palette, detailed compositions, and atmospheric perspective yield stunning landscapes, seascapes, and garden views. Her paintings are acclaimed for their textured surface and colorful luminosity.

Meg’s work has been included in multiple group and solo exhibitions and has been acquisitioned into private, corporate, healthcare, and public collections. Collectors of her work may be found as far away as Venice, Italy to the remote corners of northern Alaska.
As a widely acclaimed artist, Meg has been asked to contribute to several art publications including The Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, Salem State University Sextant, and Hand Papermaking Magazine. She has appeared on the New England Chronicle TV show and Home and Garden TV. She currently calls Topsfield, MA. her home where she spends long hours cocooned in her attached studio.

Meg received a PhD. in Education from Lesley University, an MFA in Studio Art from the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA from the State University of New York, Oswego. She has extensive teaching experience including as a visiting instructor at the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy. Currently, she is the Coordinator of Art Education at Salem State University.

2020 Featured Artists Exhibition, L’Attitude Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 Motion and Energy: Crane Estate Art Exhibit, Ipswich MA
2019 Art + Design Faculty Showcase Salem State University, Salem, MA
2018 Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water: Crane Estate Art Exhibit, Ipswich, MA
2018 Art + Design Faculty Showcase Salem State University, Salem, MA
2017 Art + Design Faculty Showcase Salem State University, Salem, MA
2016 Art + Design Faculty Showcase Salem State University, Salem, MA
2016 Impressions of Salem Inspired by “American Impressionist Childe Hassam and the Isle of Shoals” Salem Arts Associations’ 10th Annual PEM Inspirational Exhibition. Juror: Austen Barron Bailly, The George Putnam Curator of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum.
2014 Endicott College Faculty Exhibition. Rocky Neck Art Gallery, Gloucester, MA
2012 First Anniversary: Paper. Juried show, juror: James Welu, Dir. Emeritus Worcester Art Museum. Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA
2011 Solo Exhibit, Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2009 Home is where the Art Is, Children’s Hospital and the Urban Arts Institute, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2008 Pulp Function, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2006 Comp...