Marianne McCraney is a Bay Area studio artist who works in mixed media as well as drawing and painting. Her preferred mediums are oil paint and water color as well as drawing. Subjects include elders, ancestry, pandemic still lives, contemporary life, and our connection to nature.

Marianne worked as a public school art teacher for over twenty years. She is a native Californian and currency resides in Walnut Creek, CA. Marianne received her BFA at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, in 1980 and her MFA from John F Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA. in 2013.

Exhibitions

2024

Wilder Art Gallery, Orinda, CA

Works on Paper, Firefly Artists, Northport, NY

Street Life, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

People, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

The Second Half, Las Lagunas Art Gallery (online), Laguna, CA

Passage of Life-Aging, Exibitzone (online)

Faces and Figures, Fusion Art (online)

2022

Presence, Walnut Creek Library, Walnut Creek, CA

Presence, Piedmont Gardens, Oakland, CA

2020

International Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA 

Arizona Aqueous: Contemporary Water Media, 

Tubac Center for the Arts,Tubac, AZ 

Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA 

Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Ore 

Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA

2013

O’Hanlon Cultural Center in Mill Valley, CA 

Life Lines, John F Kennedy University Gallery, Emeryville, CA 

1998

The Laundry Show, Sonoma Art Center, Sonoma, CA 

Eclectibles, Hollis Street Project, Emeryville, CA

1990

The Last Picture Show, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1980

Art Center College of Design Gallery, Pasadena CA

Residencies

2018 Caetani Cultural Center, Vernon, B.C., Canada

2017 Draw International, Caylus, France

Education

2013 MFA Studio Arts, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA

1980 BFA Illustration, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA