Morgan Faulds
Pike graduated with a bachelor's Degree in Fine Art, in sculpture,
from the School for the Arts at Boston University. Until 1981
she was employed as a cabinet maker, designer draftsman, and sculptor
for C. B. Fisk Pipe Organ Builders in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Self-employed since 1981, she has completed over twenty-eight
private and public commissions in wood, bronze and stone. She
has designed and hand-carved sculptural facades for more than
a dozen pipe organs, the largest of these commissions for the
thirty-five foot facade of the organ at the Littlefield Residence
Hall in Portola Valley, California, involving more than two years
of work and including the carving of life-size male and female
figures from solid blacks of walnut wood.
Morgan has created
an elaborate sculpture in wood for a twenty foot high baptismal
font for the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,
and was noted as the first woman artist to have been commissioned
by the Chapel at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Recently,
Morgan carved panels for the facade of a Fisk organ for a new
concert hall in Yokohama, Japan.
Morgan has been
commissioned by the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association to
build the twelve foot bronze and granite Gloucester Fishermen's
Wives Memorial for the boulevard waterfront in Gloucester,
Massachusetts, joining the Fishermen's Memorial, "The
Man at the Wheel" sculpted by Leonard Craske in 1923.