Artist Marilyn Banner has exhibited her mixed media work in over 30 solo and 100 group shows across the US and abroad. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including Hebrew Union College in NYC, Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore, and the Embassy of Costa Rica in Washington DC. She is the recipient of ten residency fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and was awarded a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation VCCA Creative Fellows Grant. Her work was featured in “Encaustic Art in the 21st Century” by Anne Lee and E. Ashley Rooney. Her current show (October 2021, NYC) “Claiming Space” is the artist’s ninth solo show at Ceres Gallery. She is co-director of Washington Musica Viva.