Marsha Gray Carrington
Marsha Gray Carrington has been making things from about the age of two. Inspired by her mother Louise, an accomplished painter, she never questioned what she would be when she grew up - an artist. Marsha received her BFA from James Madison University in 1977 with a double major in Painting & Graphics and Photography. In graduate school at California Institute of the Arts she majored in Fine Art Photography and graduated with an MFA in 1981.
From 1983 until 1996 Marsha worked in the film industry in Visual Effects Animation, on films such as Ghost, Hocus Pocus, and Braveheart, with her last stint at Disney Studios. In 1996 she left the industry to follow a dream of illustrating children’s books. She landed her first book, Jake John- son, The Story of a Mule, for DK Publishing, in 1998. She has illustrated six books since for major publishers, including Tessa’s Tip Tapping Toes and Saving The Liberty Bell, to name a few. Marsha also co-owned and created designs for the greeting card
company mjZOOM from 1998 until 2006, and then with her husband Kevin from 2006-2009, that sold nation- wide and abroad. She continues to design and create for greeting cards, textile designs and her ETSY shop. She has made her living creatively all of her adult life and continues to create fine art through various mediums such as painting, graphics and photography.
After living in Los Angeles for thirty years, Marsha and her husband Kevin moved to downtown Sandusky in October of 2009. Although it was a huge change for her to move to such a small town, she feels it was just the right time and is excited to be a part of it’s rebirth. From 2015 to 2021 she owned Carrington Arts Gallery in downtown Sandusky, where she exhibited her work and over 125 artists in 25 solo and group shows. She presently has a working studio behind her home in downtown Sandusky where she continues to create. She also teaches group workshops to both adults and children in several local venues such as TAG and Port Clinton Artist Club.
Email: marsha@marshagraycarrington.com
WEB:
https://www.carringtonartsgallery.com
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