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 currently engaged in collaboration with other visual artists, dancers, sound artists and poets within an expanded field of drawing.

Nowinksi received her bachelor’s in painting from the State University of New York at New Paltz and her master’s in visual art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a full time faculty drawing program coordinator at Manchester Community College (CT) and is a visiting lecturer in drawing at Smith College (MA). In 2022 she was a visiting artist at Mount Holyoke College (MA), where she designed two courses in drawing and recently was an adjunct instructor in the visual fine arts programs at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Nowinski is frequently an Artist -Mentor in the Vermont College of Fine Arts low residency MFA program.

Nowinski regularly exhibits throughout New England and her work has been in numerous exhibitions nationally. She is the recipient of multiple awards and grants and has been featured in numerous interviews and articles. She was recently featured in an artist spotlight called “Drawing (un)limited” in Art Spiel. To learn more about her recent work, please visit her website and find works in progress @maggienow. You can hear her speak about her recent installation A WhOle RecOllection and other works in (413)Art.