Alumna Leads Movement to Empower and Advance Female Visual Artists

In 1999, Maggie O’Neill departed Holy Cross with a political science degree in hand and a plan in mind: She was going to law school. There was just one problem. “I didn’t really want to go to law school,” she confesses with a chuckle. “I’d always been creative — in fact, I spent a lot of time in the studio when I was at Holy Cross — so in the back of my mind was the lure of an alternative path.”