Art

2025 Featured Artist

Marga McBride | Knoxville, TN

Sculptor, painter, and mixed media artist Marga McBride has been “making things” ever since she can remember. She has worked in the artistic field all of her life, beginning as a layout artist on Music Row in Nashville, TN, to becoming Art Director for one of the largest hospitals in the USA, St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, AZ. She made the switch to fine art in 1988, working as a gallery assistant, manager, and finally Gallery Director for art galleries in Tennessee. While working in galleries by day, Marga studied drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture at night at the University of Tennessee.

In 1995 she began showing her work professionally when she won “Best of Show” in a juried South Eastern Exhibition. Since that time, Marga’s work has been shown across the country in fine art galleries and museum exhibitions.

Highlights of her career came when she was chosen to exhibit at the international Sculptural Objects and Functional Art Show (SOFA) on the Navy Pier in Chicago, IL, received a four-piece, permanent public installation of a mixed media painting in the Convention Center for the City of Knoxville, TN, and then was featured on the national television show “Country Style” for the Home & Garden Network. She has been exhibited in galleries in Maine, Baltimore, California, Tennessee, Philadelphia, PA, Dallas & Austin, TX, Ann Arbor, MI, Madison WI, New Orleans, LA, Miami, FL, and Chicago IL.

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“I am not an emerging artist, but I am re-emerging. The many years I have spent seeing, learning and appreciating, have accrued a balance from which I draw now…for the first time I am truly able to use not just my conceptions, but the skills I have gained over time. Nothing replaces time.”
— Marga McBride