Michelle Samour has exhibited nationally and internationally, with exhibits at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg, France; the Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; the Fuller Museum of Craft, Brockton, MA; the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX; and the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA. She has received artist grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Society of Arts and Crafts New England Artist Award, as well as grants to study historic papermaking in France and Japan. Her work has been featured in Fiber Arts and Hand Papermaking magazines and appears in public and private collections including the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, International Paper Company,and the Meditech Corporation. SMFA Diploma '81, BFA Tufts/SMFA '75, Fine Arts studies Alfred University ' 73.

Artist Statement:
I am interested in taxonomy, how we organize our thoughts and ideas, how we categorize, how we create systems. At the same time, I am interested in transience and the space around this attempt at formulating the concrete. For all of our efforts to understand one another and the world around us, whether from a biologic, scientific or sociocultural perspective, little is finite. Systems can be created and broken apart. And yet, there are forms, proportions and patterns that are constant and shared in nature.