MARGIE CRISP (b. 1960)Born in New Orleans, Louisiana; resides in Elgin Painted: Franklin Mountains SP and South Llano River SP EducationBFA with High Honors, University of Texas at Austin, 1991AA Commercial Art and Advertising Design, Southwestern Technical College, Sylva, North Carolina, 1984 Career HighlightsAuthor of books published by Texas A&M University Press:The Nueces River: Río Escondido with illustrations by William B. Montgomery, 2017River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado (author and illustrator), 2012Texas Book Festival Artist (2012)Awards: Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters (2012) and Ron Tyler Award for Best Book of Texas Culture, Texas State Historical Association (2012) Writer in Residence: Thinking Like a Mountain Foundation, Fort Davis (2009) and Madroño Foundation, Medina (2010) Selected ExhibitionsLone Star Wild: New Work by Margie Crisp, David Everett, Billy Hassell and William B. Montgomery, Davis Gallery, Austin, 2019Contemporary Lone Star Printmakers, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, 2019Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo; Texas State Capitol Rotunda, Austin; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Mayborn Museum, Baylor University, Waco, 2017–2018 (book published by TAMU Press, 2017)Painting in the Texas Tradition: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, traveled to Turner House, Dallas and Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, 2014–2015 (catalog)Restless Heart: Early and Contemporary Texas Regionalism, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, 2012 River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado, Art Center of Waco, 2012 (book)Art, Science and the World around Us, Art Center Waco, 2008The Print Show, Maryland Federation of Art City Gallery, Baltimore, 2005Gardens, Real and Imagined, Austin Museum of Art, Driscoll Villa, Austin, 2004North American Print Biennial, Boston University, Boston, 2003People, Places and Things, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, 2002 Selected Public CollectionsArt Museum of South Texas, Corpus ChristiAustin Museum of Art, AustinGrace Museum, AbilenePhoenix Arts Commission, Print Collection, Phoenix, ArizonaTyler Museum of Art, TylerUniversity of Texas at San Antonio