About
M. Wright is an associate professor of graphic design and creative director of TU’s Third Floor Design Studio. She received her MFA in visual communication design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, after an undergraduate degree in comparative literature at Princeton University.
Over the past 20 years, she has built a creative practice that specializes in collaborations with artists and cultural institutions. Her design work has garnered national and international awards, and has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, and Barcelona. Her work is in permanent collections including the National Design Archives, the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection at Columbia University, and the Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She is co-founder of the queer-feminist art and design collective AK/OK, whose work has been presented at venues including the Brooklyn Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Bishopsgate Institute (London), SOMA (Mexico City), and Stockholm University of the Arts. As co-director of OK Stamp Press based in Tiotià:ke, Montreal, she investigates artistic publishing practices with an emphasis on social justice and sustainable production methods.
Awards and Honors
Juried design awards (National/International): AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers, American Association of Museums, Association of University Presses Book Show, Chicago Book Clinic, Communication Arts Typography Annual, New York Book Show, Print Magazine Regional Design Annual, Type Directors Club, University & College Designers Association Award of Excellence
Research Support Grant, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Alfred A. Knopf Research Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Center, University of Texas at Austin
Women in Scholarly Publishing Grant, Association of American University Presses
Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University
Education
- MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- A.B., Princeton University
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Visual communication design
- Typography
- Independent publishing
- Socially engaged design
- Activist art and design
- Feminist and queer histories