Artist Margot McMahon has enchanted the conservatory of the Harley Clarke Mansion with her eerie installation. From the spectral birds to the forlorn foliage, there’s plenty to bewitch you throughout the Halloween season!
Margot McMahon
A lifelong-environmentalist, internationally-awarded Margot McMahon sculpts, writes, and paints human, plant and animal forms to say through art her hope that decisions be made to support life on earth. Margot is the author of: 1) Mac and Irene: A WWII Saga, 2) If Trees Could Talk, and 3) RESIST! A Visual History of Protest, and a YA book, Airdrie, that were published in 2021 (Aquarius Press.) She worked in the editorial department for Chicago Magazine, World Book Encyclopedia and Scholastic Magazine. In 2020, her essay, Sculpting Forms of Nature, was published in the Remembering Fifty Anthology: 50 years of Women at Yale. The 2021 Anthology Shades of Positively Pandemic includes her short story Soul to Soul. Margot's The Fifth Season: The Chicago Tree Project book, (2020 First Place Mate E. Palmer Book Award (IWPA)) originates from Margot’s MIT Press published paper, Transforming Nature (2018). Soka Gakkai International (Tokyo, Japan) Arts and Culture Award and Barat College, Rose Philippine Duchesne Society have honored her.