Maeve McCool is a visual artist who often focuses on personal and communal memory. McCool grew up in the suburbs of Wilmington, Delaware, and Southern New Jersey-both places reliant on working class labor that was changing during the 2000s and continues to morph today. Her work examines abandoned homes and factories, the balance between nature and production, gender complexities within rural and working class, and the decay of rural life. She relates her own personal experiences to her practice-such as growing up next to a General Motors plant, which closed and altered the community around it. The memory of past lives are a part of the fiber of a home or a place. The success, the economic downfall, the happiness and love, the violence and grief, are all a part of what was once there and what will be there again.

McCool received her BA in Fine Art and Art History at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC, in 2018, and is currently based in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. McCool works in Drawing, Encaustic, Printmaking, and Embroidery.