Missy Dunaway Author

Missy Dunaway is an artist and illustrator with a penchant for storytelling. Her work has been featured by Penguin Books, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, Travel + Leisure, The National Audubon Society, Passion Passport, and in published books. Her artwork exhibits internationally and has been acquired by public and private institutions including Carnegie Mellon University and the Folger Shakespeare Library of Washington DC. Missy received her Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities and Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. In 2013 she was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to study Anatolian textiles in Istanbul and in 2019 she won the inaugural “Envoy by Four Seasons” artist collaboration award by Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, for which she traveled to Vietnam. Most recently, she was awarded a New Student Full Fellowship to the Academy of Realist Art in Boston, where she is currently studying. Missy’s home studio is based in Portland, Maine. She is represented by Portland Art Gallery and is a featured instructor on Creativebug.com.