Melissa Monroe: hand-tufted sculpture and furniture, Portland, Oregon

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Made by: Melissa Monroe
Date: 2013 onwards (tufted works 2024–2025)
Place: Portland, Oregon
Themes: Companies & modern tufting

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American Craft Council, "Tufted Joy", Aug 2025; OPB, 3 Oct 2025. craftcouncil.org/articles/tufted-joy.

Research notes

A self-taught Portland, Oregon multimedia artist, working full time since 2013, mainly as a painter, who began tufting with rugs and moved to masks and furniture-building techniques (American Craft Council, "Tufted Joy", August 2025). Works include Candy Scoop (2024), a vintage chair reupholstered in hand-tufted wool; a lion of tufted wool on a wooden stool; and Double Trouble (2025), a double-headed alligator bench (Craft Council). Featured by OPB (3 Oct 2025) and PBS's Oregon Art Beat. Instagram: @melissamonroeart, as credited in a post by a Portland tufting workshop (@tuftingworkshop), and confirmed by the author on 31 Oct 2026. Research note (Oct 2026): from search results; pages not opened.