Marcia Friedman

            From Marcia Friedman’s early career as a fashion designer where she was featured in leading magazines and newspapers such as Vogue, Bazaar, W, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Magazine, The Miami Herald, The LA Times, and others. segueing into photography was a natural progression as another avenue for her creative expression. Besides one-person shows and gallery exhibits, she took her camera to Cuba to do a photographic/essay book on contemporary Cuban life titled, Cuba: The Special Period. The book received national media attention, and during the Pope’s historical visit to Cuba in 1998, ABC news called upon her to show the American public in pictures what the Pope was seeing in person.

            Among her corporate clients are McGraw Hill Publishers, Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, Ocean Club, and Princess Cruises, to name a few. She has also received recognition from Décor Magazine and Art Business News who have featured her work in a number of their issues. She is listed in Who’s Who in America, and has been selected from artists from around the world to exhibit in the 2009 Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy.

            Marcia Friedman was raised in Madison, Wisconsin and after a few years away at Ohio State University, she returned to Madison and received her BA degree from the University of Wisconsin as a Russian language major. Later she attended Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. During her career as a fashion designer, she taught design at Otis/Parsons School of Design - Los Angeles.