Washington Musica Viva

Marilyn Banner was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She received a BFA in Painting from Washington University and pursued further work in the fine arts at Queens College (CUNY), University of Maryland, and Massachusetts College of Art (MSEd 1982). Mentors David Lund, Lowry Burgess, Marvin Bileck, Betsy Damon, and Michael David have been significant influences in her approach to painting, media, concept, and content. Banner has been awarded ten fellowship residencies to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has received grants from Montgomery County Arts Council and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She has exhibited extensively in the US, including at the Ratner Museum, Corcoran Museum, and B’nai B’rith Museum (all DC area), and at Ceres Gallery, Hebrew Union College Museum, the 2025 Outsider Art Fair, and M. David & Co. in NYC. She has been a member of Ceres Gallery (New York City) since 1992 and lives in Takoma Park, Maryland. She is co-director of Washington Musica Viva.