Thought

Matt Duckett

Fine Artist and Educator

<sub>Matt Duckett is a painter whose work examines the ghosts of tradition that inhabit our lifestyles, drawn from a deep involvement in the various places he’s lived, including Scandinavian cultural legacies in rural Wisconsin, the interplay of heritage and hardship in Irish immigrant communities in Chicago, and disaster-stricken refugee communities the Philippines, investigating issues of displacement and identity through the things we carry with us when forced to leave everything behind. 

Duckett’s work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and internationally and featured in national publications including Fine Art Connoisseur and Poets & Artists. Duckett has been passionately involved in developing arts communities in the various places he’s lived, worked, and visited, being a key contributor to a variety of nonprofits, artist incubators and state and local arts boards in order to foster arts and education.

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