Meet the artist

Carrie Wright is a deeply committed artist whose work demonstrates an exceptional combination of artistic vision, technical expertise, professional discipline, and community engagement. She is a lifelong creator who has spent eighteen years developing her studio practice, with a particular focus on mastering the specialized medium of silk painting. Since 2018, she has dedicated herself to building a professional full-time art business around this work.

A self-taught artist and visionary thinker, Wright feels absolute freedom to push the boundaries of what can be achieved on silk as a substrate, every piece of art an exploration of color and abstract expression. Her early portfolio includes more than 30 large-scale commissioned works, some measuring approximately 55 by 96 inches. Her work over the last six years has been accepted into multiple fine-art juried exhibitions and has received awards, providing meaningful validation from the broader arts community.

Wright designed the project’s elegant structural rigging and has validated its architectural feasibility through a precise 1/17th-scale model constructed in her studio. Her ingenuity has led her to engineer many of her own tools, including the Japanese silk painting Harite and Shinshi system that enables her to paint the 77 five-yard-long silk panels for the project. She also developed her own steamer since her dyes must be steamed a minimum of three hours in order to be light and color fast.

Wright believes all of her life experiences have converged into this pinnacle project. She spent her early adult years after college working her way up the corporate ladder in business to business technology sales in the compliance sector of the Financial Services industry. Back then she spearheaded a creative new service offering which lead to an entirely new department for her employer and a valuable new service within the industry. Although she found the lucrative work deeply unfulfilling and made the bold life decision to leave it all behind in 2005, it did hone her excellent communication and organizational skills. Wright has the professional acumen to handle the logistics and financial management necessary for a project the size of 7DAYS.

Wright maintains her art studio on the second floor of the historic Murray Building in downtown Muncie, Indiana and lives just five blocks away in the Old West End with her husband Dan Wright, also an artist.