With a constant desire for education, Marnie is at ease each moment she enters a classroom full of students whether asychonronous or live. Within her philosophy of teaching is her knowledge and experience that learning is reciprocal. Marnie has learned about the field of design and of general life experiences from her past and current pupils.

She studied both graphic design and art education from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee where she obtained her Bachelors in Fine Arts and at Northern Illinois University where she completed her Masters in Science emphasizing Art Education. During her undergraduate studies she was a foreign exchange student at Notthingham Trent University in Nottingham, England where she studied graphic design with international students.

Marnie has been a professor at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online for the past 6 years where she teaches students who are working in their last few courses before graduation as well as several who are working on their first courses in the graphic design department. Previously she taught at an area community college, and a technical university both online and in a classroom.

Currently Marnie is working with stained glass or creating wheel thrown and hand-built pottery pieces. Her desire is to begin bringing together clay, glass, felt and possibly fabric into multimedia artwork. In the past she has created multiple fabric compositions using imagery and text created with thread and fabric.