MaryRoss Taylor is an independent curator and consultant living in Wimberley, Texas, in the Hill Country between Austin and San Antonio. She holds a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California. She directed the nationally recognized alternative space Lawndale Art Center in Houston from 1991-1997. From 1985-1990 she directed artist Judy Chicago's nonprofit organization Through the Flower, working with scores of exhibitions of The Birth Project in the U.S. and Canada and the international tour of The Dinner Party. From 1973-1983 she was the founder and proprietor of an influential feminist bookstore in Houston. She has served on the Governor's Commission for Women (Ann Richards, Governor of Texas); as President of the Leadership America Association; and serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Advisory Board of WomanMade Gallery in Chicago. Recent exhibitions curated: Limp, sponsored by the Houston Women's Caucus for Art, which was Houston critics' favorite exhibition at the International Sculpture Conference 2000 in Houston; and Identity, an exhibition commissioned by the University of Houston-Clear Lake for the South Central Women's Studies Association annual meeting in April 1998, which traveled to Women & Their Work in Austin, Texas in an augmented version in July 1998. In 2000 she juried the Third International Competition for Womanmade Gallery in Chicago and the National All-Media Exhibition for the Coalition of Women Artists in Huntsville, Texas. She writes occasionally for ArtLies magazine, Houston.

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