ARTIST BIO
Marcie Scudder is a lens-based, multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intimate connections between the human experience and the ephemeral cycles of nature. Rooted in themes of fragility and loss, rebirth and renewal, her art is a meditation on memory—how we remember, what we remember, and who. It is a quiet conversation between generations, grounded in gratitude, presence, and the full sensory experience of being alive.
Scudder holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Maine Media College and a B.Arch. in Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her work has been exhibited in spaces including The Wilson Museum at Southern Vermont Arts Center, The Kent Museum, AVA Gallery, Studio Place Arts, SE Center for Photography, and Davis-Orton Gallery. It has been featured in Lenscratch, Still Point Quarterly, NE Home Magazine, Stowe Magazine, and Catchlight.
After nearly three decades running her own architectural practice, Scudder turned to photography as a new form of creative expression. Her current work fuses both disciplines—transforming photographs into sculptural paper forms that shape, hold, and transform space.
She lives and works in Stowe, Vermont, where winter is long, summer is fleeting, and time is marked by the shifting light of the seasons.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“If you work with your hands, you’re a laborer. If you work with your hands and your mind, you’re a craftsman.
If you work with your hands and your mind and your heart, you’re an artist.”
-Saint Francis Assisi
When my mother died, I was left with her house and her garden. The garden, with its cycles of growth, decay, and rebirth, has become my physical, spiritual and metaphorical muse. It’s become a symbol and source; a mainstay of my work as it conjures memory, loss, and renewal. My paper sculptures emerge from this landscape - layered, stitched, grounded.
I begin with a photograph; a captured moment in real time. I cut, fold, sew, and sculpt the printed imagery into three-dimensional paper forms. My process is slow, repetitive and meditative: a quiet ritual of reconstruction that reflects the emotional labor of honoring, remembering and making meaning. I re-construct, re-envision and re-create; often transforming scale to affect the viewer’s proprioception and sense of movement through space.
Within this process of creating, I have come to understand a critical piece of my internal being: I am the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Although once a truth that felt too heavy to hold, I now welcome it as an imperative call to honor, remember and share stories that tie me to my Jewish lineage - both past and present day.
We are all our mother’s gardens—tended and wild, cultivated and inherited. My work exists in that space in-between; between image and object, between past and present, between rupture and repair. It is within this space that I seek beauty, inviting the viewer to pause, reflect and feel.
RECENT EXHIBITITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
June 2025 / UNDERSTORY, Juried Group Exhibit, Juror: Samantha Eckert - AVA Gallery; Lebanon, NH
May 2025 / UNBOUND XIII, Juried Group Exhibit - Artistree Arts Center; South Pomfret, VT
February 2025 / WHERE‘S MY HAT, Juried Group Exhibit, Juror: Sue Higby - Studio Place Arts; Barre, VT
October 2024 - February 2025 / LINEAGES: ARTISTS ARE NEVER ALONE, Invitational Group Exhibit - Southern Vermont Arts Center, Wilson Museum; Manchester, VT
September 2024 / THE PERSONAL IS UNIVERSAL, Group Art Exhibit - The Barn at Comfort Farm; Stowe, VT
March 2024 / FORM + TEXTURE, Juried Group Exhibit, Juror: Samantha Eckert - AVA Gallery; Lebanon, NH
February 2024 / CAPE BOUND, New England Book Artists invitational Exhibit - Higgins Gallery at Cape Cod Community College; Barnstable, MA
January 2024 / NEW ENGLAND HOME MAGAZINE - Exploring New Dimensions, Marcie Scudder is on an artistic journey of discovery
WINTER.SPRING 2024 / STOWE MAGAZINE - Changing Direction, Marcie Scudder masters reinvention
November 2023 / COQUELICOTS, MFA Thesis Exhibit - Russell Gallery at Maine Media; Rockport, ME
September 2023 / TRACES, Invitational Group Exhibit - Art at the Kent Museum; Calais, VT
May 2023 / ONE + ONE IS MORE THAN TWO, Juried Group Exhibit, Juror: Sue Higby - Studio Place Arts; Barre, VT
May 2022 / LENSCRATCH: Photography + Form