Donna McNeil

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Donna McNeil (born in the 1940s in Würzburg, Germany) is an American arts advocate, author, and curator. She founded the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation in Rockland, Maine and serves as its executive founding director. She previously directed the Maine Arts Commission and co-directed Artists in Context, and she has served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation.

McNeil studied at Syracuse University (BFA in painting) and Harvard University (MA in Liberal Studies, focusing on art history) and has an honorary PhD in Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art. She wrote There Has to Be Magic: The Art of Evelyn Kok (2017), which won a Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing in 2018, and Moser: Legacy in Wood (2015) about the Thos. Moser company. Since 2017 she has led the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, an arts grant and residency program in Rockland. She supports reproductive freedom and has spoken about her own abortion in 1965 before Roe v. Wade.