MICHAEL MORGULIS
For most of my working life I have been fortunate to be involved in some expression of creativity. I learned how to make silkscreen prints while working at a t-shirt printing factory in San Francisco… where I lost my heart to printmaking. It was when I first thought of being an artist and print maker.
Along the way I also self-taught myself other processes of art making. During the pandemic I learned how to create artful objects using paper mache’. Making sculptural forms or even simple bowls and pots and decorating them in various ways has currently become an obsession. What could be next, I wonder.
BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Buffalo, NY in 1942. Graduated High School in 1958. Spent 3 years in the U.S. Army 1960-63. BA in English Dept. and MA in American Studies at SUNYAB. 1968
Moved to San Francisco where I learned silkscreen printing while working as a t-shirt printer and began to design t-shirts for various Rock groups, e.g. Grateful Dead. Returned to Buffalo in 1974 and opened a design and silkscreen printing business called Great Arrow Graphics. In 1982 opened New Buffalo Graphics and Local Color Editions, a graphic design business and gallery shop where I produced, created and sold t-shirts, posters and other art objects. During the Summer of 1998, I was accepted into a Master Class with Milton Glaser at the School of Visual Arts in NYC where I developed new design skills. Also designed 2 websites businesses, www.morgulisgallery.com and www.planetbuffalo.com .
I retired from my design and printing business during the COVID pandemic and have since been working in my home studio painting, making prints and paper mache' sculpture.