About Maggie Parr
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Parr has been drawing and painting from the moment she could hold a pen. The daughter of a visual artist and a set/lighting designer, she put her innate talents to use early on by writing and illustrating her own books, designing carnivals and haunted houses for her friends, and creating mazes out of the cornfields in Ohio (much to the local farmers' chagrin). When her family traveled to Europe, it awoke in her a lifelong fascination with art, history, and architecture. She studied fine arts printmaking in college, but she also supported herself by illustrating books and games, and creating artwork for private commissions.

After graduating with honors in 1989, Parr was hired as the youngest show designer at Walt Disney Imagineering. During her tenure there, she designed attractions for Toontown and Animal Kingdom, among others. In 1994, she left Imagineering to open an independent art and design business developing murals, portraits, illustrations, and architectural and industrial design. But Disney has never been far from her heart, and she continues to design and consult for Imagineering on a regular basis. She has also been a featured artist with the Disney Gallery since 2005, and has developed an international following for her classical style oil portraits of the characters.

Parr also has a passion for oil painting, both representational and expressionist. Since completing her first paintings in 1992, she has exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles and New York, and studied with master painters including Jove Wang, Steve Huston, Cheryl Kline, Jeremy Lipking, and Steven Assael.

Parr works from her Los Angeles studio, traveling occasionally to paint murals in place or consult in design meetings. Her art has been published in several books and exhibition catalogs. Several of her paintings are currently displayed at the Mayor's Gallery in City Hall in Los Angeles, California. Enter your email at left to be notified of new work, or check the news portion of this website.

Select client list:
Walt Disney Imagineering
MCA Universal
Warner Brothers
Paramount Pictures
Ted Turney Productions
Bank of America
C2 Creative
Jack Morton Worldwide
Caruso Affiliates
Gary Goddard Entertainment
Applause
The Walking Company

Select publications:
Designing Disney’s Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance, New York: Flammarion Press, 1997
Walt Disney Imagineering, New York: Hyperion Press, 1996
The Airship, Wooly & The Wizard, The Mudblups, The Missing Princess, and The Treasure, Alchemy II, 2005
The Airship, from “The New World of Teddy Ruxpin”, YES! Entertainment Corporation, 1998

Professional affiliations:
California Art Club
Toastmasters Executive 412 (CC, past president)
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