University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, B.F.A. Design, 1980-85

Solo Exhibition- New Work- Hibbard/McGrath Gallery - Breckenridge, Colorado, 2004

New Work by Laurie Hall and Marcia Macdonald Hibbard/McGrath Gallery, Breckenridge, CO, 2002

The Works Gallery - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001

MIA Gallery - Seattle, Washington, 1994

Hibberd/McGrath Gallery - Breckenridge, Colorado, 1994

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

CHESS, Velvet da Vinci, The Vennel Gallery, Irvine, Scotland, The Gallery, Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire, Wales, 2003, The Crafts Council Shop, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, Thomas Mann I/O Gallery, 2004

Once Upon a Time: Artists Examine Fairy Tales, Legends and Myths, Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI, 2001

The Relic Makers, OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2000

The Works Gallery — Philadelphia, PA, 2000

Combined Perception: Personal Jewelry by Mac McCall, Marcia Macdonald, Chris Patzlaff, Taboo Studio, San Diego, CA, 1999

Artwear 1999, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, 1999

Containment, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Art Museum -Edwardsville, IL, 1999

Metals National: Invitational 1998, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 1999

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Style 2005- Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California, 2005

FRESH- New work by 12 artists, Martina and Co., Providence, Rhode Island, 2005

CRAFT Boston 2005, presented by the Society of Arts and Crafts, World Trade Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005

Metal and Otherwise; Jewelry Media Connections, Florida Craftsman Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2005

.925 + Ingenuity= Art Jewelry, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005

Magnificent Extravagance: Artists and Opulence, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, 2005

100 Brooches, Group Exhibition, Velvet da Vinci, 2005, traveling through 2006

Haystack Summer faculty show- Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine, 2004

The Martini Show, Thomas Mann Gallery IO, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004

200 Rings, Group Exhibition, Velvet da Vinci, 2004, traveling through 2005

Collect, Velvet da Vinci at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2004

Chess, Chessmen by International Artists, Velvet da Vinci, 2003, traveling through 2005

Attitude and Action! North American Figurative Jewelry, Curated by Gail Brown, Atrium Gallery at the University of Birmingham's School of Jewellery, Birmingham, England, 2000

Teacher, Jewelry and Metals, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 2001

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Jewelry/Metals Department, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, 2004

Teacher, Jewelry and Metals, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, 2004

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Jewelry/Metals Department, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 2004

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2003

Teacher, Jewelry and Metals, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 2003

Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) Board member and conference coordinator, 2000-2004

Mentoring children in my studio, working with children and teaching them to draw, design and to work with metal and mixed media materials, 2002

SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) reading program- reading to children enrolled in the public school system in Eugene, Oregon, 2001

Teacher, Jewelry and Metals, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, 2001

Teacher, Jewelry and Metals, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 2001

Jewelry/Metals Spring Concentration Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 1998

"500 Brooches" Curated by Marjorie Simon, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 2005

Palmer, Tom "American Art Collector" Alcove Books, Berkeley, California, 2004

Meilach, Dona "Art Jewelry Today" Schiffer Publishing , Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2003

McCreight, Tim The Metalsmith's Book of Boxes and Lockets, Hand Books Press, Madison, WI, 1999

McCreight, Tim Jewelry - The Fundamentals of Metalsmithing, Hand Books Press, Madison, WI, 1997

Design House Inc., Nouvel Objet lll - Artists of the World, Seoul, Korea, 1997

Allen, Anne, Penchant for Pendants, Metalsmith, Volume 17, Number 1, Winter, 1997

American Craft Council-professional member

ABANA- Artist-Blacksmith's Association of North America

Seattle Metals Guild

CMAG-Creative Metal Arts Guild of Portland, Oregon

GEM- Guild of Eugene Metalsmiths

Most of my pieces tell a story. These days (post-Barbie), the story is simplified into a single symbolic object, or a symbolic combination of materials and imagery. The dichotomies of life intrigue me most-the way our most divine impulses coexist with our most earthbound ones, or the way our most serious moments also have an aspect of humor, if you can just step back from them. That's why you'll find contrasting materials and images in my work, like precious metals alongside rusted steel, or sterling silver cast in the forms of brittle-looking twigs and branches. Found objects, precious metals, colored stones, eggshells, wood, gold leaf, paint and glass are the materials that from the three-dimensional vocabulary I use to express some of the contradictions and surprises of our world.