Brookie Maxwell
Born	(1956-10-15)October 15, 1956 New York, New York
Died	November 4, 2015(2015-11-04) (aged 59)

Emily Brooke "Brookie" Maxwell (October 15, 1956 – November 4, 2015) was an American artist and curator.^[1]

Early life

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]

Career

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]

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