numerous public collections, including those of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the San Antonio Museum of Art. In an effort to strengthen its holdings of contemporary art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, acquired McCleary's The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer (2008) for an undisclosed sum. A haunting work depicting domestic disaster, its "complex assemblage...represents a home engulfed in flames. A young man in the foreground, his face patterned with color, stares outward, confronting the viewer as a witness to the tragedy." McCleary has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in two dozen states, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and internationally in Russia and Mexico. Awards She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Mid-American Arts Alliance/ National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, recognition from the Texas Commission on the Arts "for her contribution and dedication to the arts in Texas," and Art League Houston's 'Texas Artist of the Year' for 2011. References External links Mary McCleary biography, awards & selected exhibitions Mary McCleary official website 1951 births American contemporary artists Stephen F. Austin State University faculty American art historians Artists from Texas Living people National Endowment for the Arts Fellows American women artists Women art historians American women historians