Maggie Nowinski

Maggie Nowinski, MFA, is a multi-modal artist, teaching-artist and curator based in Western Massachusetts. She received a BFA in painting from State University of New York and an MFA in Visual Art Vermont College of Fine Arts. Nowinski is the full time Instructor of Drawing and Gallery Director at CT State Community College Manchester and was recently Visiting Lecturer in drawing at Smith College. Nowinski’s art practice encompasses various mediums, including drawing, sculpture, printmaking, found objects, sound, and performance. Her installations explore the connections between the body, grief and environment, pulling from intersections of the human, botanical and geological. Nowinski is interested in expressions of translations through various mediums, mining memory and representation in relation to the natural world as it both adapts and struggles to survive. Her practice is informed by an awareness of the conceptual and political inevitability of art making, as well as a love for repetition, daily mark-making, collaboration and frequent wanderings in the woods. All of her works are an extension of her drawing practice.

Most recently Maggie Nowinski (2024) exhibited an interactive solo exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts entitled Abundant in Drift which combined elements of Nowinski’s own artistic practice with new works created for the UMCA exhibition. Abundant in Drift responds to the UMass Natural History Collections, most significantly the UMass Herbarium. She was also a part of group exhibition on contemporary drawing entitled Desire Lines at the Brattleboro Museum of Art in Vermont (2025). In 2023 Nowinski was an artist in residence along with a large scale solo exhibition Cicatrix | in Bloom at the Tremaine Gallery at The Hotchkiss School where she worked with students to create an experiential drawing project. You can hear Nowinski speak about recent works, including the wHoles exhibited at the Eastern Connecticut State University Gallery, via this interview which accompanied a solo exhibition in 2021-2022 called a wHole Recollection. Maggie Nowinski’s work is held by private and public collections including The Deerfield Academy, University Museum of Contemporary Art UMASS and by Robert Hurst, Whitney Museum of American Art Chairman. Nowinski is the recipient of numerous grants in support of her projects including the Berkshire Taconic A.R.T grant and LCC grants through the Massachusetts Cultural Council. More information can be found at her website www.maggienowinski.org, Instagram @maggienow.