Maggie Nowinski

Maggie Nowinski is an interdisciplinary and teaching artist based in Western Massachusetts. Her current body of work is rooted in drawing and printmaking, though her artworks usually take the format of installation and combine traditional and unusual media, audio, and performative processes.  Her work investigates somatic response human emotion through imagined specimen drawings that appear as abject human-botanical entities or specimens. Nowinski’s practice is embodied by an awareness of the conceptual and political inevitability of art making and an adoration for repetition, daily mark-making and long walks. She engages in collaboration with other visual artists, dancers, sound artists and poets within an expanded field of drawing.

Nowinksi received her BFA in Painting from the State University of New York at New Paltz and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Visual Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Nowinski is an Assistant Professor of Drawing and oversees the Drawing Program at CT State Community College in CT, where is is also the Director of the Hans Weiss Newpace Gallery, the Virginia and Adolf Dehn Gallery and oversees campus art collections. Maggie Nowinski was recently a Visiting Lecturer in Drawing at Smith College (MA). In 2022 Nowinski was a Visiting Artist at Mount Holyoke College (MA), and has also been an adjunct instructor in the visual fine arts programs at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Westfield State University and Elms College. Nowinski is frequently an Artist -Mentor in the Vermont College of Fine Arts low residency MFA program housed at CalArts.

Nowinski regularly exhibits her work has been in numerous exhibitions nationally and is the recipient of multiple awards and grants and has been featured in numerous interviews and articles.

Recent Exhibitions include Internal Landscape: I Can Feel This Place in My Bones at OVERLAP Project Space in Newport Rhode Island, Fun Sized Public Arts Festival in Northampton Massachusettes and will be an Exhibiting Artist in Residence at the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. In 2024/2025 Nowinski had a solo show called Abundant in Drift at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst and was part of an exhibition of contemporary artists working in drawing called Desire Lines at the Brattleboro Museum.

Nowinski was recently featured in an artist spotlight called “Drawing (un)limited” in Art Spiel. To learn more about Nowinski’s work, please visit website and find works in progress @maggienow. You can hear Nowinski speak here: A WhOle RecOllection and here: (413)Art.