237-0064 maryshaymcguire@gmail.com I graduated from Newton College of the Sacred Heart, now part of Boston College, with a BA major in art with a focus on painting and a minor in philosophy. Tomie dePaola, well known artist, writer and illustrator of children’s books, was one of my teachers who gave me great encouragement which in part led to the opportunity to study painting for a year in Paris, France at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Atelier Lhote. I returned to live in New York City and taught art there for three years. After I moved to State College, I was the Executive Director of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania for eighteen years. During this time I continued painting and have been in numerous shows in State College, Bellefonte and Lemont, PA My work has won prizes and is in private collections in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. This past year, I had the privileged of having my work juried into the Bellefonte Museum of Art. My paintings are in the permanent collection of the Breast Care Center permanent collection at the Penn State Milton Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. My work has been in recent shows at The State Theater downtown State College, The art Alliance’s Pro Femina: Women’s Voices exhibit and currently at Juniper Village at Brookline, State College, PA In 2003 I graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a MFA in writing poetry and taught in the English Department for 12 years. I continue to teach painting at the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania and to show and sell my work at The Gallery Shop, Lemont, PA