Moira Marti Geoffrion was born in Olney, MD. She grew up on a large farm in South Eastern Ohio where she first developed her interest in the natural environment. Her parents founded the Marti College Prep School which she graduated from. She received her BFA degree from the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts after which she and her husband served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, West Africa. They both returned to the USA to attend Indiana University in Bloomington,IN. While in Bloomington, Moira founded the Mandalla Pre-School where she taught art, theater, music, English, math and French. Moira and her husband and their daughter returned to Africa for 10 months for field research in East Africa in Malawi. They then settled in Edwardsville IL and Moira completed her MFA in Sculpture at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. In 1974 they moved to South Bend IN where Moira had their son. She taught wood and metal fabrication, drawing, figure modeling and African Art History at Notre Dame University and built a foundry for the Art Department. Moira's art was represented by the Zaks Gallery in Chicago and she exhibited in New York and throughout the USA. In 1986 the family moved to Tucson AZ where Moira was hired to be head of the Art Department at the University of Arizona, where she continues to teach sculpture. Her public and private commissions can be seen throughout the Midwest,in Oregon,in Oro Valley and Tucson AZ and in Australia. See resume for more information.