BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced today that Cambridge artist Wendy Jacob is the recipient of the 2011 Maud Morgan Prize. Jacob’s works explore human impulse, intimacy, and interaction through interventions with furniture, architecture, and open spaces. Over the course of her career, she has collaborated with engineers, circus performers, and people with disabilities to create breathing walls and ceilings, tightropes that cross through rooms, and chairs that embrace their sitters. The MFA’s Maud Morgan Prize honors a Massachusetts woman artist who has demonstrated significant contributions, creativity, and vision to the local contemporary arts landscape. It was established in 1993 in recognition of the spirit of adventure and independence embodied by noted New England artist Maud Morgan (1903–1999). Jacob will receive a $10,000 prize and her work will be on view in the MFA’s ne