Superior has received a National Endowment for the Visual Arts fellowship and numerous individual artists grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, most recently in 2017. She is included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and her work can be found nationally and internationally in many public and private collections.

In 2018, through the generous support of the Kohler Foundation, gifts of art by Mara Superior were made to fifteen museums throughout the USA, increasing the public holdings of Superior’s artworks.

Below is a list of over twenty institutions that have acquired works by Mara Superior through generous gifts, commissions, or museum purchases. Click through each link to learn more about individual works in Museum Collections.

ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART
BENNINGTON MUSEUM
CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART
CROCKER ART MUSEUM
CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART
EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART
FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM
HOOD MUSEUM OF ART
KAMM TEAPOT FOUNDATION
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
NEWARK MUSEUM
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM
SHELBURNE MUSEUM
RACINE ART MUSEUM
RISD MUSEUM
THE CHIPSTONE FOUNDATION
THE FRICK PITTSBURGH
THE RENWICK GALLERY | SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM