Margaret Morrison awarded Best in Show at The Butler’s 86th National Midyear Exhibition

The oil painting Menagerie by drawing and painting professor Margaret Morrison was awarded Best in Show in the 86th National Midyear Exhibition at the Butler Institute for American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. The exhibition, on view from June 19 through August 14, 2022, is among the oldest juried shows of two-dimensional work in the country. This year’s exhibition featured 76 works from artists across 11 states. This year’s exhibition juror was William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia.

Margaret Morrison received her MFA from the University of Utah in 1988. Morrison has exhibited in museums and institutions around the world such as the MAEC-Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca in Cortona, Italy; the Maria V. Howard Art Museum in Rocky Mount, North Carolina; the Kimmel Center at New York University in New York City; the Shelburne Museum of Art in Shelburne, Vermont; the Rockefeller Museum and Art Center in New York; the YAM Contemporary Museum in Montana; and the Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center of the Smithsonian Institution in Maryland and the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia. Additionally, Morrison’s work was featured in the historic Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building. In 2012, Morrison was personally invited by the Director of the Department of State Art in Embassies Program to display her painting, “Cat’s Eyes” in the Ambassador’s residence in Tel Aviv, Israel at the request of Ambassador Daniel Shapiro. For three years, Morrison’s largescale oil painting on canvas served as the backdrop for visiting dignitaries from all over the world; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Prime Minister Shimon Perez, and US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.