Maggie and her husband John Muchmore met in the Art Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 1965 and by 1967 were living in a remote mountain village of Northern New Mexico. In 1970, they moved to Santa Fe where they both have painted, raised children and now have grandchildren.

 

Since the 1970's, Maggie has had regular one woman shows of her pastel landscapes at galleries in Santa Fe, San Francisco, Houston and Los Angeles. She has made a living as an artist, taught young girls through the O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and continues to pursue her visual imagery of aging, the feminine, the unseen world, and whatever snags her imagination.

 

Several years ago, while visiting her favorite paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, she noticed the colors looked less vibrant than she remembered. Returning to New Mexico, she stopped painting landscapes and began a series on aging, doing self portraits using black charcoal. Cataract surgery eventually corrected her color perception and she is now re-exploring the colors of the New Mexico landscape.

 

Maggie's latest interest is in the visual aspects of opera and she has volunteered each summer in the Santa Fe Opera's costume shop. She is also writing and illustrating her own opera about the feminine journey as opposed to the hero's quest.