Missy Dunaway is an interdisciplinary artist whose paintings reflect her research in the humanities. Currently, she is painting every bird cited by Shakespeare, a years-long pursuit taking her through The Bard’s 38 plays to analyze the symbolic significance of 65 species. Follow her progress at birdsofshakespeare.com and view her current exhibition at the Cumberland Club in Portland.

Missy earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities and Arts from Carnegie Mellon Univer- sity in 2010. A traveler at heart, she has attended numerous international artist-in-resi- dence programs that provide the opportunity for extended visits and cultural immersion. She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, a Folger Institute Fellowship, the ArtPrize Educator Award, a New Student Scholarship to the Academy of Realist Art Boston, and traveled to Vietnam as a Four Seasons Envoy. Her illustrations are featured by Moleskine, Penguin Random House, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Missy is represented by the Portland Art Gallery in her home state of Maine. Her first book, The Traveling Artist: A Visual Journal, was released in 2021 by G Editions.

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