Michelle Maguire is an archivist at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, a wonderful and robust research collection bursting with books and periodicals, original art, newspaper tear sheets, fan mail/hate mail, journals/diaries/sketchbooks—anything that helps to paint a picture of the life of a cartoonist.

She is also a visual artist whose work often takes on book form—her self-published, small-edition books that draw from family anecdotes, personal memories, and everyday observations are held in the permanent collections of THESE university and museum libraries:

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
Cornell University
Emily Carr University of Art & Design
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
Harvard University
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Public Library
Ohio State University
Ohio University
Pratt Institute
Ringling College of Art & Design
Rochester Institute of Technology
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
TATE LIBRARY
Tufts University
University of California, Irvine
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
University of Utah
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON
Yale University

2023 New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellow

2026 lost and found lab artist-in-residence

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