Marcia Stuermer is a mixed-media artist based in San Francisco. Originally from Ohio, Stuermer studied at the Cooper School of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Kansas City Art Institute where she received her BFA in sculpture and drawing. Early in her artistic career she immersed herself in multi-media performance and sculptural, installation work while teaching art classes for the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Ohio Arts Council. In 1988, after being awarded a prestigious Ohio Arts Council Fellowship grant, Marcia relocated to San Francisco, the city that had enchanted her on numerous family cross-country summer road trips of her youth.

Nature, science, and unconventional artistic creativity has inspired Stuermer from an early age and those elements, seemingly intrinsic to the San Francisco/Bay Area, continue to inform her work today. Employing that symbiotic relationship of forces, Stuermer uses her alchemy to transform her primary medium of translucent resin in combination with other materials into expressive investigations of emotion, thought and memory as she evokes commentary on topical issues. Exhibited in a wide range of galleries and published extensively in art and design publications world wide, her work is held in both private and corporate collections in the Bay Area and throughout the US.

In addition to her studio practice, Stuermer is also the founder and creative force behind Stuermer Studios, known for functional, artisanal resin applications for the interior design and architectural industry.