Meg Morley is a craft-based artist in the Detroit metro area. Her work currently centers around personal considerations of comfort as an abatement to anxiety, which she processes through making: hands-on, playing, experimenting, failing, puzzling, and problem-solving.

Working with a range of materials, processes and techniques including basketry, knotting, weaving, and sewing, Meg reckons with the tension between perceived dualities of comfort – a desire for softness and a need for structure. Can a person with a predilection for control, order, and correctness find ease, acceptance, and beauty in letting go?

While mostly self-taught, Meg learned basketry techniques through workshops with renowned instructors at Praxis Fiber Workshop and Penland School of Craft. Most recently, her work has been shown at Matéria Edition Gallery and in the Scarab Club 111th Gold Medal Exhibition. She has exhibited work in group shows in Detroit, MI, Springfield, IL, Milwaukee, WI, and Norfolk, VA. Meg was invited to participate in the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Pentaculum Residency program in 2024 and will return to teach sculptural basketry in 2025. 

Meg currently volunteers as the Managing Director of Detroit-based Fiber Club*, for which she oversees group exhibits, programming, partnerships and operational functions.

Meg has worked professionally as an executive producer, sod layer, theatrical lighting designer and electrician, Steak & Shake server, digital strategist and solutions planner, biopsychology lab assistant, production manager, information architect, concrete mixer, project manager, event planner, fundraiser, welder, and studio manager. (In no particular order.) She has a B.A. in Theatre & Dance from Knox College.

She lives with her partner Rob, and their dogs Squishy and Gary. She very much enjoys a good nap & snack.