Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Photo by E. Julien Coyne
Feather Painting Workshop
August 16, 2025
The Wendell Gilley Museum
4 Herrick Road
Southwest Harbor, ME 04679
Registration Required
Solo Exhibition
Nov 2025 - Jan 2026
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 E Capitol St SE
Washington, DC 20003
Year Round General Exhibit
Portland Art Gallery
154 Middle St
Portland, ME 04107
About
Missy Dunaway is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Maine. Her work blends painting with research, investigating connections between art, literature, history, and the natural world. Her projects have explored Anatolian textiles, classical painting techniques, ornithology, and Shakespearean literature.
She earned a BFA with a concentration in Painting and Material & Visual Culture from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. Soon after, she moved to Istanbul on a Fulbright Fellowship, beginning several years of international travel through artist residencies. Her sketchbooks from this period were published in 2021 as The Traveling Artist: A Visual Journal.
Dunaway is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Folger Institute Fellowship, and a scholarship to the Academy of Realist Art Boston. She was selected as a Four Seasons Envoy for a creative project filmed in Vietnam. She has illustrated book covers for acclaimed authors including Ruskin Bond and Raja Rao, and she penned 21 articles for the Folger Shakespeare’s Library’s blog, Shakespeare & Beyond.