Adair Margo continued
Since 1985, Adair Margo has owned the Adair Margo Gallery in El Paso (now Adair Margo Fine Art), that has exhibited over 400 individual artists from a dozen countries, and has placed the work of regional artists in the collections of national museums, the Oval Office of the White House, and in U.S. Embassies worldwide. Adair Margo is especially devoted to the legacy of Tom Lea, founding The Tom Lea Institute in 2009. She recorded his oral history, co-editing Tom Lea, An Oral History (1995, Texas Western Press) that won the Border Regional Library Association Award, and wrote the forward to The Two Thousand Yard Stare, Tom Lea’s World War II (2008, Texas A&M Press), winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Award. Margo also recorded the oral history of National Humanities Medalist Jose Cisneros, co-editing José Cisneros, Immigrant Artist (2006, Texas Western Press). She graduated with a B.A. in Art History from Vanderbilt University; studied Renaissance art history and Italian with Syracuse University in Florence, Italy; and, earned an M.A. in Art History from New Mexico State University. Adair Margo has taught undergraduates, graduates and lifelong learning participants at the University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico State University.
In Texas, Adair Margo has served as Chairman of the Texas Commission on the Arts and on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Other state boards include the Texas Book Festival, Humanities Texas, and Texas A&M University Press. Margo has also served on the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools/Commission on Colleges Executive Committee, and participates on the board of Mid-America Arts Alliance (ExhibitsUSA); the Smithsonian American Art Museum Advisory Council; the National Advisory Board for the Laura Welch Bush Institute for Women’s Health; the El Paso Museum of History Foundation board; and the board of Kids Excell. She is the founding President of the Mexican Federation of Private Associations for Health and Economic Development (FEMAP) Foundation.
