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Marion Roller, NA, FNSS was born in Boston, Mass. Studied at the Vesper George Scholl of Art, The Art Students League and received her BA from Queens College. She is a versatile sculptor – equally facile in small works in fired terra cotta or monumental works in cast bronze. Her figures, portraits, base reliefs and medals have been awarded numerous honors. Roller’s sculpture has been exhibited in places throughout the world including the National Academy of Design and National Sculpture Society in New York City; The United States Mints in San Francisco and Denver; Albany (NY) Institute of History and Arts: Pittsfield (MA) Museum; Cannon House Rotunda in Washington, D.C.; National Sculpture Society of Serravizza, Italy; Federation Internationale de la Medaille in Helsinki, Finland, Budapest, Hungary, and widely exhibited in Eastern Europe as part of the U.S. Information Service.

She has won The Gold Medal of Honor and the Silver from the Audubon Artists, at least four awards from the National Sculpture Society, the Margaret Sussman and the Charlotte Dunwiddie Memorial Awards from the Pen & Brush and many others.

During the winter of 1999-2000 she lived and worked at Brookgreen Gardens as their first sculpture in Residence and created their year 2000 annual medal “Plantation Award”. She also created an Award Medal for the National Academy of Design and in 2001, she was commissioned by The Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio to create a medal for “The Butler Institute of American Art Life Achievement Award in American Art”.

Marion Roller is listed in “Who’s Who in American Art”, “Dictionary of American Sculptors from the 18th Century to the Present” and other publications.