Donna McNeil

Donna McNeil (born 1940s) (born in 1946 or 1947.) (She was aged 70 in 2017. She was educated at Syracuse University, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts in painting and Harvard University, where she earned a Master of Arts in liberal studies focused on art history. She holds an honorary Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art.

Career She was the co-director of Artists in Context and the former executive director of the Maine Arts Commission. and MacArthur Foundation.

She is the author of the 2017 book There Has to Be Magic: The Art of Evelyn Kok, which won the Excellence in Publishing award at the Maine Literary Awards in 2018. She also wrote Moser: Legacy in Wood about the Thos. Moser company, published in 2015.

Books There Has to Be Magic: The Art of Evelyn Kok, Maine Authors Publishing, 2017

Personal life McNeil has spoken in support of reproductive freedom, describing her own experience with a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion in 1965.