Marie Figge Wise was born in Davenport, Iowa and now splits her time between Texas and Colorado. From a young age, art has been a tremendous influence on Figge Wise’s life, cultivated at first from her studies at The Art students League of New York, then in Italy where she studied the studio arts and art history, and later by her family’s connection with Davenport’s Figge Art Museum. Marie has studied with Joe Anna Arnett, Sherrie McGraw, Gregg Kreutz, Nancy Bush, and Michael Workman.