Margot McMahon (Spoken Label, July 2023)

New from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the amazong Margot McMahon. Margot is a lifelong environment, scuplter, paints human, plant and animals forms to say, through art that she hopes that help decisions be made be support life on earth. Margot is the author of 1) Mac and Irene: A WWII Saga, 2) IF TREES COULD TALK A National Book Award recipient (NFPW), and 3) AIRDRIE, and 4) RESIST!: A VISUAL HISTORY OF PROTEST that wERE published in 2021-22 (Aquarius Press.) She has been published in 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. Her THE FIFTH SEASON: THE CHICAGO TREE PROJECT, 2nd edition 2023 (2020 First Place Mate E. Palmer Book Award (IWPA)) is in its second edition and originates from Margot’s MIT Press published paper, Transforming Nature (2018). Soka Gakkai International (Tokyo, Japan) Arts and Culture award, National Sculpture Society and Barat College, and Rose Philippine Duchesne Society have awarded her. Margot has an Environmental Journalism degree from Hamline University and an MFA from Yale University. She has taught at Yale University, Yale Norfolk, The Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul University, and other institutions. More about Margot can be read at: https://margotmcmahon.com/ https://linktr.ee/margotmcmahon