Miro Fitzgerald has two entirely separate and unique painting styles – landscape paintings and her signature abstract brush stroke paintings. Art is an intrinsic part of Miro’s life having come from a family of artists. Both her parents were prominent Northwest artists. Her father, James Fitzgerald was an accomplished sculptor who created bronze sculptures and monumental fountains throughout the United States and her mother, Margaret Tomkins, was an influential abstract painter in the Northwest.
Miro’s background includes a M.F.A. from University of Washington, three full fellowships (the San Francisco Art Institute, Skowhegan School in Maine, the Yale School of Art), a one year Max Beckman Grant to the Brooklyn Museum School in New York and an Invitational Artist in Residence to MacDowell. She studied under renowned artists Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine and Jacob Lawrence (painters) as well as Gabor Petredi (Printmaker) and Walker Evans (WPA photographer).
