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Logo for United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, on background of Margots painting

Margot's coral paintings were endorsed for the Ocean Decade activity “The Ring of Fire:Friends, Reefs, and Bounce Back,” that ran through June of 2024. See more here.

SculptureworksLLC:Oceans Decade Ripple Effect clothing.

Dear Friends,

Please take a look at the link for frocks or frills you might enjoy wearing.

Maybe a gift for a birthday? Or Christmas will be here before we know it...

Enjoy!

Margot

Wearable art with Margot's Palauan Coral Paintings.

Available at SculptureWorksLLC.

Aquarius Press is announcing a series of
three books by Margot McMahon.

Mac & Irene: A WWII Saga
Margot's father, painter and artist reporter Franklin McMahon, was a prisoner of war in WWII. Much of his story is at FranklinMcMahon.net. The new book is based on scrapbooks Franklin McMahon kept. Learn about and register for an online Chicago authors' panel in which Margot will discuss Parachuting Artists.

If Trees Could Talk
If Trees Could Talk is a hybrid historical fiction/memoir that uncovers family secrets through the clues of Margot's father’s paintings and her mother’s writings. "This is all they left to follow the breadcrumbs of their life story. The fear of losing my mother and her patterns had already happened, now Dad was ailing and I don’t know my grandparent’s names let alone where I came from. As I discover my Northern Irish Catholic roots, I realize my adventurous life has been a quest to understand my past." SCAN ME: QR code

If Trees Could Talk has received an award from the National Federation Press Women!

It qualified by being the 2022 Mate E. Palmer First Place Book Award from the Illinois Women Press Association.

Franklin McMahon watercolor and pencil image of politians in press conference
RESIST! A Visual History of Protest Franklin McMahon was front and center for much of the protest movements over fifty years that changed America. Her father's art journalism illuminated Margot McMahon's book, RESIST! A Visual History of Protest released in December 2022. His drawings and paintings have been shown for the past six years throughout Chicagoland and will be exhibited in 2022-23 at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. RESIST! painting exhibition of his drawings includes the Bryand Milam trial, the Edmund Pettus Bridge protest, and Iraq War protests. The Fair Housing at 50 exhibition at the Oak Park River Forest Museum includes an artwork by Franklin McMahon. The Chicago History Museum, which published an online exhibition of McMahon’s collection of Chicago Conspiracy Trial paintings in 2020 includes Franklin McMahon's art. The images can also be found online: a Chicago History Museum book shows and tells how paintings of the Emmett Till Trial were created for Life magazine by Franklin McMahon in 1955. Related films can be found at Chicago Film Archives. Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W. Chicago Exhibition: December 17, noon through February 12, 2023.

Order Mac & Irene: A WWII Saga here.

Order If Trees Could Talk here. Or learn more and order from Bookshop.org.

Press about the books:
Windy City Reviews
Historical Novel Society
Wisconsin Writers Association
Wednesday Journal

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Airdrie
By Margot McMahon.

A young adult "mini book" from Margot McMahon's coming of age in Chicago,
where she discovers her passion for art, justice and the mystery of trees.

Learn more and order from Bookshop.org.

Order from Auquarius Press/Willow books here.

The Fifth Season received the 2020 Mate E. Palmer First Place Book Award from the Illinois Women's Press Association.

A book celebrating fifty sculpted trees by thirty renown artists over 30 miles of Chicago Park sculpture museum. The book is available at The Book Table in Oak Park on Lake Street, or online from More Books or Amazon.

The first section of the book is an explanation of the importance of keeping condemned trees in urban nature. The second section is poetry of the vital life within a dying tree including feeding birds, creating burrows for animals and interactions with the grove of like trees. The third section is a service workshop to care for the park and parkway saplings. We would like to create an exchange between neighborhoods with teens to plant a tree in another neighborhood in exchange, and care for the tree planted by others with an annual picnic or reading by the two high schools.

See the A.S.A.P! video.

Honoring the life of Gwendolyn Brooks

Margot has created first sculpture in a Chicago park of an African American woman, only the second sculpture of any woman in the parks.

The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, in partnership with the Chicago Park District, the Poetry Foundation, and Brooks Permissions, has installed the memorial in Gwendolyn Brooks Park. The larger-than-life bronze portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, a porch modeled after the poet’s childhood writing spot, a stepping stone path etched with memorable Annie Allen quotations, and a stone circle symbolic of her enlarged world post-literary acclaim celebrate Brooks' life and achievements.

The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame has been awarded a Chicago Community Trust Acting Up grant to help fund its proposed “From the Porch of Gwendolyn Brooks” program.

The Chicago Park District awarded the CLHOF a $2,000 grant and other support to help stage the unveiling on June 7, 2018, which would have been Brooks’ 101st birthday.