05/11/2026
We are excited to welcome Maggie K. Barrett to campus as our 2026 Borgeson Artist in Residence! She will spend the next eight weeks creating a new body of work to be exhibited in the De Pree Gallery!
Barrett (b. Buffalo, NY) is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is grounded in an extended exploration of grief as an embodied experience—something that altered her senses and required a slower rate of moving through the world. Her practice spans print-, paper-, and book-making, writing, installation, and photography. She works in labor-intensive ways that point back to the body at work. Taking from both sport and literary culture, she responds to found objects like a thank you card from her dad, passages in books like Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill, or stills from YouTube videos, like a tennis player refocusing between games. Using humor, repetition, and scale, themes in her work circle around endurance, touch, and presence. Her work has been exhibited at Guest Gallery (Brooklyn), Tufts University Art Galleries (Boston), Center for Book Arts (New York), Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (London), and Brackett Creek Exhibitions (Montana). She completed an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2022, where she was awarded the Wolfgang Spoerl Prize, and was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2025. The Borgeson Artist in Residence will be her first residency.
The Borgeson Artist in Residence Program was established in 2016 by the generosity of esteemed alumni Clarke ’72 and Nancy Rayner ’72 Borgeson. We are grateful for their support and enthusiasm for the arts, without which this program would not be possible.
