| Brookie Maxwell | |
| Birth Date: | October 15, 1956 |
| Birth Place: | New York, New York |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | School of Visual Arts, Columbia, Harvard |
Emily Brooke ("Brookie") Maxwell (October 15, 1956 – November 4, 2015) was an American artist and curator.[1]
Maxwell was born in Manhattan, New York to parents William Maxwell, a literary editor for The New Yorker Magazine, and Emily Noyes, a poet.[1] Maxwell received a degree in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 1977.[2] [3] [4]
In 1986 Maxwell founded the Creative Arts Workshops to serve children living in New York's homeless shelters and welfare-subsidized hotels.[1] [5] The best-known project of the Workshops was "Calle de Suenos", or "Street of Dreams" in English, a 5000-square-foot mural on Lexington avenue near 124th street, New York.[6] [7]
In 1999 Maxwell founded Gallery 138 in Soho, New York City to represent emerging artists.[8] [9]
Her work is included in the art collections of the US Department of State[10] and the Brooklyn Museum.[11]
She died of ovarian cancer in 2015.[12]