Английская Википедия:Donna McNeil

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Шаблон:Short description Donna McNeil (born 1940s)Шаблон:Efn is an American arts advocate, author, and curator. She is the founding executive director of the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation and the former director of the Maine Arts Commission.

Early life and education

McNeil was born in Würzburg, Germany.[1] She was educated at Syracuse University, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts in painting and Harvard University, where she earned a master of arts in liberal studies focussed on art history. She holds an honorary Ph.D in Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art.[2]

Career

She was the co-director of Artists in Context and the former executive director of the Maine Arts Commission.[2] She has served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Arts[3] and MacArthur Foundation.[4]

She is the author of the 2017 book There Has to Be Magic: The Art of Evelyn Kok, which won the Excellence in Publishing award at the Maine Literary Awards in 2018.[5][6] She also wrote Moser: Legacy in Wood about the Thos. Moser company, published in 2015.[7]

Since 2017, McNeil has served as the executive founding director of the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, an arts grant and residency in Rockland, Maine.[8]

Books

  • There Has to Be Magic: The Art of Evelyn Kok, Maine Authors Publishing, 2017[5]

Personal life

McNeil has spoken in support of reproductive freedom, describing her own experience with a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion in 1965.[9][10]

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