About

Stacy Motte is a sculptor working with traditional craft techniques and media who regularly experiments with alternative processes. Although her research shifts from one body of work to the next there is almost always some relationship to craft material history or American consumer culture. She is currently working on a series of sculptures that explore the history of early American luxury furniture. Research for past work has led to interests in gendered and invisible labor in early-industrial craft production, the medical history of hygiene and hygiene advertising to women, queer and feminine aesthetics in American cultural production, and early ethnographic practices and archive gathering.  She sees her work as an opportunity to smash together disparate positions through made objects in order to forge a through-line from the current moment to the past.

From 2022- 2024 Stacy was a resident artist and adjunct faculty at the Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Tech University and from 2020 to 2022 she was a Wingate Resident artist and temporary faculty at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2020.  She has taught introductory and advanced woodworking and sculpture classes, including a workshop at The Haystack School of Craft which focused on reimagining historical furniture techniques. Stacy is currently having an adventure in Tokyo.