Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
Artist talk: Friday, November 21st at 6:30 pm *followed by a book signing!
Stuart and Mimi Rose Rare Book and Manuscript Exhibition Hall
Register for the talk
Exhibition: Fri, Nov 14, 2025 – Sun, Jan 4, 2026
The Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol St SE
Washington, DC 20003
Plan your visit
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Cape Elizabeth, ME
Exhibition: April, 2026
St. Alban's Episcopal Church
885 Shore Road
Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107
Phone: (207) 799-4014
stalbansmaine.org
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Amherst, MA
Artist-in-Residence: July, 2026
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Presentation information to come.
About the program
Portland Art Gallery, Portland, ME
Exhibition: Year-round general exhibit
Portland Art Gallery
154 Middle St
Portland, ME 04107
207-956-7105
portlandartgallery.com
About
Missy Dunaway is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Maine. Her work blends painting with research, exploring intersections of art, literature, history, and nature. Her projects have explored Anatolian textiles, classical painting techniques, ornithology, and Shakespearean literature. She will be an artist-in-residence at UMass Amherst’s Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies in 2026.
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 to study the earliest Anatolian textiles, beginning several years of international travel through artist residencies. Her research culminated in a collection of paintings that were exhibited in Istanbul, Berlin, and the United States. Her sketchbooks from this period were later published in 2021 as The Traveling Artist: A Visual Journal.
Missy is also a recipient of a Folger Institute Fellowship, a scholarship to the Academy of Realist Art Boston, and she was selected as the inaugural Four Seasons Envoy. Her illustrations appear on book covers for authors including Ruskin Bond and Raja Rao, and she penned 21 articles for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s blog, Shakespeare & Beyond.