" Mike Libby (b 1976), creator of INSECT LAB, is a multi-disciplinary
artist who makes sculptures, models, collages and drawings using diverse
materials, detailed craftsmanship and conceptual curiosity. Mike exhibits
Insect Lab and his other work in the state of Maine, where he was born,
and throughout the US and in parts of Europe, his work is in a variety of
collections local and worldwide. And he enjoys being an active member
of his local community in Southern Maine as a citizen, a visiting artist at
several educational institutions and an entrepreneur. Mike Graduated with
a degree in Sculpture from RISD in 1999 and has since attended the Vermont
Studio Center, been artist-in-residence at the University of Maine at Orono,
and has enjoyed being a recent presenter at local Pecha Kucha events in
Portland, Maine.
Through Insect Lab, Mike has worked widely with book writers, editors,
publishers, and members of the science fiction community, curators of
galleries and museums, debuted at high end craft shows such as
CraftBoston, Philadelphia and Smithsonian, has been a guest of Hasbro,
featured through Neiman Marcus and just this past year is carried by
Anthropologie. Originally from central Maine, he currently resides and
works in South Portland, hoping to adopt a rescue dog soon. "
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