Education
M.F.A Studio Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 2007
BA Studio Art, University of Colorado at Boutder, 2001
Post Baccalaureate Ceramics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002
Biography
A native of Oxnard, California, Marianne creates works of installation and sculpture that contemplate the dramatic transformation she has witnessed in the landscape of her youth.
Marianne received a BA in Ceramics and Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2001. After graduation she was a co-founder and lead curator of Gallery Sovereign — Boulder’s first gallery focusing on the work of emerging and underrepresented artists.
In 2007, she received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. From 2008-2014, Marianne was an Associate Professor of Art and the Head of the Sculpture and Ceramics Programs at Temple College. From 2011-2014 she served on the founding Executive Board of Directors for the Texas Sculpture Group — one of three branches of the International Sculpture Center; she was a Curator and Coordinator for NCECA’s Projects Space Exhibition; and exhibited widely throughout the western US and Canada.
In 2017 Marianne became an Assistant Professor of Art in the Art Department at California State University Channel Islands, and resumed her role with NCECA’s Projects Space. In 2019, she joined the Board of Directors of the Santa Paula Art Museum. In 2021, she has upcoming solo exhibitions abroad in Viborg and Copenhagen, Denmark, and locally in Ventura County.
Marianne loves being anywhere outside and away with her young daughter Marlowe and husband Michael Napolitano. She maintains a studio and lives with her family in Ventura, CA.
Representative Courses Taught
- ART 207 Ceramics
- ART 318 Three-Dimensional Art — Ceramics
- ART 329 Ceramics Theory and Process
- ART 421 Advanced Artistic Problems:3D
- ART 489 Arts Seminar
- ART 499 Arts Capstone