Margot McMahon Non-Member Joined 2022

Eco-author and artist with a dash of history

For five decades, as a lifelong environmentalist and internationally-awarded artist, Margot McMahon has sculpted, written about, and painted human, plant, and animal forms to express her hope that decisions be made to support life and social justice. Margot’s sculptures are collected and exhibited by the Smithsonian Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, and John D. McArthur in the John D. MacArthur State Park. As a nationally-awarded writer, with degrees in Environmental Journalism and Art and an MFA from Yale University, she tells stories about her love of nature. Encouraging public eco-art to be a part of everyday life, Margot serves on boards with Ragdale Foundation, Oak Park Art League, and Yale University-Chicago, Chicago Women’s History Center, and Yale Blue Green-Global. Her husband and she live next to Chicago where she sculpts, writes, and paints in her home/studio.