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The public is invited to join a talk between the artist and curator Michelle Millar Fisher, the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as a co-founder of Designing Motherhood.
Donahue lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Houston, TX in 1983 where she regularly visited The Menil Collection, Houston. Its Surrealist and Modernist collection remains influential. She received her MFA at Brooklyn College in 2018, after beginning the program in the company of her six-week-old daughter. She received her BFA from SMFA at Tufts and many of her academic classes took place in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. While making works for Fun House she was reading about Kiki Smith, daughter of sculptor David Smith. She is also influenced by Joan Brown, Danielle McKinney, Niki de Saint Phalle, among others.
Michelle Millar Fisher is the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as a co-founder of Designing Motherhood.
