189 Smithfield Road

MARGARET E. LIBBY 189 Smithfield Road Oakland, Maine 04963 207-465-3935 [email protected]

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (*Solo shows)

2006 FACULTY EXHIBITION, November-December, Colby College Museum of Art.

2006 *WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? PORTRAITS OF COLBY WOMEN, 1875-1904, March-August, President’s Room, Miller Library, Colby College, Waterville, Maine.

2005 *WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? PORTRAITS OF COLBY WOMEN, 1875-1904, March-present, President’s Room, Miller Library, Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Sponsored in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission.

2005 FACULTY EXHIBITION, November-January, Colby College Museum of Art.

2002 ALONG THE KENNEBEC, May-October, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, Maine.

2001 MAINE WOMEN IN THE ARTS, November-December 2001, Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Panel presentations, Maine Women's Studies Conference, Colby College, Waterville, Maine.

2000 *MARGARET LIBBY: PAINTINGS AND PASTELS, April 2000, O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, Maine. MAINE COAST ARTISTS BIENNIAL JURIED EXHIBITION 2000, May-June 2000, Rockport, Maine

1999 PAST PERSONAL, PRESENT PERSONAL, March 1999, Jewett Hall Gallery, University of Maine at Augusta. Curated by Karen Gilg.

1998 *BETWEEN MOTHER AND CHILD, April 1998, Harbor Art Gallery, UMass Boston. SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL INSTALLATIONS, Old Key Bank, Skowhegan, Maine, August 1998. Curated by Abby Shahn.

1996 GROUP SHOW: SKOWHEGAN AT 50: THE MAINE LEGACY, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport; Baxter Gallery of Maine College of Art, Portland; Blaine House, Augusta, Maine.

1994 *REGARDING THE SELF, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. AWARDS AND HONORS

2005 GOOD IDEA GRANT RECIPIENT, Maine Arts Commission

1999 MAINE JURIED SLIDE REGISTRY PARTICIPANT, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, Maine.

1990 PARTIAL FELLOWSHIP, Vermont Studio School, Johnson, Vermont.

1987 WILLIAM AND MARGUERITE ZORACH SCHOLARSHIP to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

1985 Work chosen for the Maine Biennial of Painting, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine. Juried by Brooke Alexander, Judith Rothschild, and Diane Villani.

TEACHING and LECTURES

2006 Guest Speaker, Beginning Sculpture, University of Maine at Augusta Guest Speaker, American Studies Seminar “American Memory” Colby College Colby Alumnae Reunion talk “Where are the Women? Portraits of Colby Women, 1875-1904” Artists’ talk, “Where are the Women?” Colby College Student Show juror, University of Maine at Augusta

2005 Team-teaching Survey of Western Art (Art 112), Colby Art Department Artists’ Talk, “Where are the Women?” President’s Room, Miller Library, Colby College

2001-present Teaching: Introduction to Figure Painting, January Program, Colby College

EDUCATION

1991-92 INDEPENDENT STUDY with painters James Linehan and Frederick Lynch.

1990 VERMONT STUDIO SCHOOL.

1987 SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.

1982 NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL OF PAINTING, DRAWING AND SCULPTURE

1981 COLBY COLLEGE, B.A. Art

1974-75 TUFTS UNIVERSITY SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Plesch, Véronique, Memory and Intermediality in Maggie Libby’s Portraits of Colby Women, forthcoming in Media inter media: Intermediality in the Arts. Festschrift in Honor of Claus Cluver’s 75th Birthday, Ed. Stephanie Moore Glaser.

Boyle, Gerry. “Colby Women Brought to Life Through Art.” Colby Magazine, Summer 2005. Vol. 94, no.2.

"Margaret Libby: Regarding the Self." Colby College Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter, 1994.

Greenleaf, Ken. "Colby Neighbors Exhibit Works That Need No Introduction." Maine Sunday Telegram, March 1994 p. 6E.

Bradford, Kathy. "Gender Influence is an Elusive and Hotly Debated Theme." Maine Times, July 17, 1992 p. 24-25.

Greenleaf, Ken. "On the Issues, Like Identity, Art Still Speaks." Maine Sunday Telegram, 12 July 1992, 8E.

Cannon, Kimberly. "Paintings are a Study in Contrast." The Times Record, 21 March, 1991.

Beem, Edgar Allen. Maine Art Now. Dog Ear Press, 1990, p. 253.