Margot McMahon

Margot McMahon received the 2019 Mate E. Palmer First Place Service Award 2020 First Place Book Award from The Illinois Women's Press Association for her contributions to the Chicago Tree Project.Margot McMahon StatementThe Chicago Tree Project celebrated its fifth season with fifty sculpted trees in over thirty miles of Chicago Parks. Neighbors embrace the public art statements while mourning the loss of mature tree canopies. Sculpting dead trees gives them a fifth season by harboring food and shelter for wildlife. From grave to cradle, the Chicago Tree Project will teach young tree-tenders of all ages how to care for the millions of saplings being planted to replace our lost canopy. Sculpting grand condemned trees with artistic statements, caring for replacement young plantlets, and showing that carbon is choking both young and old is our mission. Warming temperatures and more volatile weather stress trees making it more difficult for saplings to thrive.

Like the silk map slipped from parachutist Franklin McMahon's sleeve offering escape from the German P.O.W. camp, daughter and author Margot, describes the astonishing world then flung upon him from 1945-2012. Her evocative words startle the reader to life, as we follow Franklin and Irene parents to a family of nine, immersed in a lifetime of struggle for social justice They provoke us to confront truth via vivid pencil drawings, historic voice, faith and film in order to Resist and Answer: What have you done today for justice? --Kathleen Osberger, L.C.S.W., Chicago community organizer, activist and therapistThe true story of the later years of Franklin McMahon, artist-reporter for many powerful moments in U.S. History, from the Emmett Till Trial to the Apollo missions. McMahon was a WWII Army Air Corps veteran and former prisoner of war in Germany who made it back home to Chicago to his sweetheart Irene. McMahon became an award-winning presidential artist, among numerous additional honors. This book is the final in a series by Franklin's daughter, Margot McMahon. This book is part of the RESIST exhibitions in museums nationwide.

If Trees Could Talk is a hybrid historical fiction/memoir that uncovers family secrets through the clues of Margot's father's reportorial paintings and her mother's travel journalism. "This is all they left to follow the breadcrumbs of their life story...As I discover my Northern Irish Catholic roots, I realize my adventurous life has been a quest to understand my past."-the AuthorAbout the Margot McMahon CollectionA series of books by Chicago artist Margot McMahon about her life and devotion to art, ecology and social justice.

If Trees Could Talk is a memoir that uncovers family secrets through clues discovered by internationally acclaimed sculptor Margot McMahon.

True story about sculptor Margot McMahon's youth in Chicago and her travels, where she discovers her passion for art, justice and nature. The daughter of Franklin McMahon, famed Chicago artist-reporter whose works reside in the Smithsonian, Margot is an internationally-acclaimed artist and sculptor with work around the world in public and private collections.Margot McMahon credits her upbringing in Airdrie, her family home, for her development as an artist whose work addresses themes of social justice and the respect for nature. Margot McMahon has received several writing awards and authored nonfiction books for adults and young adults including The Fifth Season, the recipient of the 2020 Mate E. Palmer First Place Book Award. An internationally-awarded sculptor, Margot lives in Chicago with her husband and visiting three grown children.

Mac & Irene: A WWII Saga is based on the true story of Franklin "Mac" McMahon, Emmy and Peabody award-winning artist-reporter and filmmaker. In WWII, McMahon was a U.S. Army Air Corps B-17 navigator who survived the Stalag Luft III POW camp to return home to Chicago and his sweetheart, Irene. McMahon later served as the courtroom artist for the Emmett Till Trial and the infamous Chicago "Conspiracy" Trial of 1969/70. McMahon was also a Presidential and U.S. Space Program artist. Mac & Irene: A WWII Saga is the first in a trilogy on McMahon's legendary life and legacy.