Dorothea by Maureen McCabe mixed archival inkjet cut-outs with metal ball and wire, 9.75 x 10.75 x 1.5 inches, 2024. Maureen McCabe was born 1947 in Quincy, MA and is an internationally recognized collage artist, whose playful yet carefully composed assemblages weave imagery from ancient and current cultures, together with aspects of folklore, literature, magic, myth, and the unexplained.

McCabe's art consists predominantly of drawn or inscribed images, often upon chalkboard slates, that are juxtaposed with artifacts, relics, jewels, feathers, and bits of popular culture. Despite their many elements, the assemblages are not random, but rather highly researched fragments of experience curated around a focused theme.

McCabe has an extensive exhibition record over the past fifty years, with over thirty individual exhibitions in New York, Washington D.C., and Chicago galleries. She has also shown in museum exhibitions throughout the United States and Mexico, and was the subject of a major retrospective at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington. McCabe received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art before teaching for four decades at Connecticut College, where she retired as the Cummings Endowed Chair in 2011.