Searle's Work Acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Here I Come To Save The Day by Karen Searle ’99, MFA, has recently been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The work was on view in the museum’s Tender Loving Care exhibit, which ran from July 22, 2023 to January 12, 2025.

Searle creates sculptures and objects in fiber and mixed media, using tools and techniques of domestic textile-making, or "women's work." Her art has been exhibited in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Korea. She was a resident artist at New York Mills Cultural Center, New York Mills, MN, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, and Canberra School of Art Fibers Department, Canberra, Australia.

Searle is also a teacher, mentor, author and publisher, and a "lover of cultural textiles."

Tender Loving Care
Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art (Boston, MA)

July 22, 2023–January 12, 2025

Learn More

• Searle's Website
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston