RAiR | 1974

Marian Winsryg 

Marian Winsryg (1941- ) was born in Los Angeles, California and received a BA from Arizona State University in Phoenix in 1963 and graduated with a MFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles with a High Distinction. She specialized in digital prints inspired by nature and animals. Marian started teaching at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles in 1987 and from 1999, was the Curator and Director of SMC's Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery as well as the SMC Performing Arts Center. In 2004, she was awarded SMC’s Francis/Martin Sosin Chair of Excellence award.

Marian's first experience with art was attending classes at the Art Institute of Chicago between the ages of six to eight years old. Among her most memorable experiences were trips to The Field Museum, the Museum of Science and Industry, Lincoln Park Zoo, and the Art Institute, where they would draw amazing collections of animals, science, natural history, art and artifacts.  Exposure to these experiences created an unbelievable visual education at an early age, presenting a broad overview of nature and civilization that fueled her imagination as a young person and still does today.

See Marian’s website.