Maggie Murphy is a letterpress printer and mixed-media artist who lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. She engages in process-based exploration of materials while using the speculative as a mode for imagining different outcomes in her text-based work. She finds kinship in the methods, strategies, and embodied labor of craft production.
Maggie is an associate professor and Art & Design Librarian at UNC Greensboro, and a student in the MFA in Studio Arts program.
Workshops and Residencies
2025
In Cahoots / Book Arts and Letterpress Artist Residency (March 3-8)
2024
Directangle Press / Risograph and Letterpress Artist Residency (January 21 – 27)
2023
Penland School of Craft / Pressing Pixels (Session 3 – Letterpress, June 18 – 30)
Exhibitions
2024
sea change (juried group show) / midwest nice art (summer 2024)
#Postmarked (group show) / Crafting the Future + Treats Studio, Spruce Pine, NC (July 15 – August 15)
Yart Sale (group show) / Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC (July 9 – 13)
IYKYK! (group show) / Northside District x PEEL Gallery + Artstigators, Chapel Hill, NC (June 20 – August 20)
Worlds Collide vol. 2 (group show) / One Rep, Greensboro, NC (June – August)
Community Small Works (juried group show) / Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC (March 12 – 16)
2023
“THE MOON ALWAYS BECOMES WHOLE” (solo installation) / The City Billboard, Greensboro, NC (March 1 – 31)
Artist’s Talks
2024
Print Futures LIVE (invited talk) / Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Wayzgoose / Two Rivers, WI (November 9)
Print Futures Spring 2024 / hosted by Partners in Print and Letterpress Educators of Art & Design / Virtual (April 7)
Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference / hosted by the Stimulating Creativity in Practice Special Interest Group / Pittsburgh, PA (April 4)
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
2024
Kate Cheney Chappell Fellowship / Haystack Mountain School of Crafts – full scholarship and $500 award (declined due to scheduling conflict)
Artist Support Grant / Arts Council of Greater Greensboro – $1320 award
Faculty Research Award / UNC Greensboro (co-PI: Kelley O’Brien) – $25,000 research grant
2023
Paul H. & Ginger S. Duensing Scholarship / Penland School of Craft – full scholarship
Press
2024
“Artist in Focus: Maggie Murphy” / Arts Council of Greater Greensboro Blog, May 31, 2024
“Making something good: Greensboro’s zine community is as vibrant as ever” / Triad City Beat, April 29, 2024
