Mary McFerran is an artist based in New York’s Hudson Valley. She studied merchandising at F.I.T, art education at Empire State College and printmaking at The University of NY at Albany and received an MFA in Expanded Arts at Ohio State University and an MA in Educational Technology at NYU. She has been a number of different things in her life including merchandiser, video artist, art teacher, mother, and educational technology coordinator. She discovered her love of art making early in life, but her ability to pursue it full-time has been postponed until relatively late in life. In 2010, she was living in London and took a class in embroidery, which introduced her to the idea that stitching is another form of mark making. Since then, she has focused on working with textiles in her work intrigued by the challenge of combining disparate elements in her compositions and the inclusion of textiles.