Photo: Chloe Lillash
b. 1986, Johnstown, PA
Marla Roddy holds an MFA in Sculpture from Indiana University and a BFA in Sculpture and BA in Art History from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She is a professional artist in addition to developing a 10-year career in gallery management, curation, and arts administration. Her artistic practice is based in using meditative or ritualistic processes, such as repetitive hand sewing, to explore familial relationships and connections. By channelling distressed emotions, such as loss or anxiety, the work produced offers a form comfort. Marla currently lives and works in Indianapolis, IN, where she is the Assistant Registrar for Exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.
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EDUCATION
MFA – Fine Arts: Sculpture • Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
BFA – Fine Arts: Sculpture • Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, PA
BA – Art History • Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, PA
Summer Session – Art History & Photography • Studio Art Centers International
Florence, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Inked • Garfield Park Arts Center
Indianapolis, IN
2023
Artists Among Us: Season Two • Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, IN
Artifactuality • NE Sculpture Gallery Factory
Minneapolis, MN (Curated by Allison Baker & Janell Hammer)
Illuminated 2023 • Beech Grove Clay Works
Beech Grove, IN
2022
TINY XI: A Really Big Show • Gallery 924
Indianapolis, IN (Juried)
Artists Among Us • Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, IN
Healing Through Art • Nickel Plate Arts
Noblesville, IN (Juried)
Illuminated 2022 • Beech Grove Clay Works
Beech Grove, IN
2021
Sidewalk Art Gallery Mural • Circle Center Mall
Indianapolis, IN (Juried)
2020 - 2021
Dust: The Plates of the Present • Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
2019
Gmitter 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition • Bruce Gallery
Edinboro, PA (invitational)
Ohio State Fair Juried Fine Arts Exhibition • Cox Fine Arts Center
Columbus, OH (Juried by Jodi Rose Gonzales, Kelly & Kyle Phelps, Nicholas Hill)
ImageOHIO 19 • The Shot Tower Gallery / ROY G BIV Gallery
Columbus, OH (Juried by Jennifer Lange)
2018
A Woman’s Voice Through Art • Erie Art Gallery
Erie, PA (Juried by Cat Palmer, Alison Stinely, Jhenah Telyndru)
2017
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition • Trust Arts Education Center
Pittsburgh, PA (Juried by Lee Parker, John Peña, Lenore D. Thomas)
2016
Can We Talk? Memories, Miracles, and the Power of Things Unsaid • Stutz Art Gallery
Indianapolis, IN (Juried)
Hoosier Women in Art • Garfield Park Arts Center
Indianapolis, IN (Juried)
Hello To All This! • Circle City Industrial Complex
Indianapolis, IN (Juried by Working Girls artist collective)
2015
Collective Remix • Franklin Arts Center Resident Artists Gallery
Brainerd, MN (Curated by Martin Nelson)
Columbus Makes • Indiana University Center for Art+Design
Columbus, IN (Curated by Jennifer Riley)
Downeast Sculpture Indoor Exhibition • Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge
Greenville, NC (Juried)
2014
Paper & Stitch Juried Craft Exhibition • Franklin Arts Center Resident Artists Gallery
Brainerd, MN (Curated by Martin Nelson)
Internal Manifestations • Vault Gallery, Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center
Bloomington, IN (Solo)
2012
All I Can Do • Grunwald Gallery of Art
Bloomington, IN (Solo)
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition • Trust Arts Education Center
Pittsburgh, PA (Juried by Murray Horne, Michael Olijnyk, Linda Benedict-Jones)
Devotion • Bloomington Clay Studio
Bloomington, IN (Curated by Jeremy Sweet)
Recreation, Renewal, Rebirth • Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Pittsburgh, PA (Juried by the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors)
Without Justification • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
Candy Coated Chaos 1.3 • The Lodge
Bloomington, IN (Invitational)
Flesh, Blood, and Bone • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN (Curated by Peter Kenar and William Fillmore)
2011
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition • Trust Arts Education Center
Pittsburgh, PA (Juried by Murray Horne, Jason Busch, Kate Lydon)
The Kinsey Institute 6th Annual Juried Art Show • SoFA Gallery
Bloomington, IN (Juried by Betsy Stirratt, Garry Milius, Christopher Bedford)
2010
I Could Do Better • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
2009
Pancake Breakfast • 709 Railroad Street
Johnstown, PA (With Evan DiFlauro, Invitational by Mike Miller)
The Five Obstructions • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
2008
Body Exploration • Bates Gallery
Edinboro, PA (Solo)
Chimera Volume 6 Exhibition • Erie Art Museum
Erie, PA (Juried)
Michael V. Gmitter Memorial Exhibition • Bates Gallery
Edinboro, PA (Juried by Deborah Vahanian, Renee Thayer-Allison, Chuck Johnson, D.W. Martin, Terry McKelvey)
2007
Chimera Volume 5 Exhibition • Erie Art Museum
Erie, PA (Juried)
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Season Two: Follow the Mud - 2019 • Beeler Gallery
Columbus, OH
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, Chapter Five - 2019 • Institute of Contemporary Art
Philadelphia, PA
Pattern/Place - 2019 • ROY G BIV Gallery
Columbus, OH
Moe Marks, Artist House: A Retrospective - 2019 • The Loft
Bloomington, IN
The Final Show (Stoop Kids Never Leave the Stoop) - 2019 • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
Season One: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified – 2018-2019 • Beeler Gallery
Columbus, OH
Art Night Local - 2017 • SpringHill Suites
Bloomington, IN
Implied Action: Performance Through Object - 2015 • Grunwald Gallery
Bloomington, IN
Exquisite Installation - 2012 • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Registrar for Exhibitions • Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, IN • April 2022 to Present
Registration Assistant • Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, IN • October 2021 to February 2022
Gallery Associate • Brandt-Roberts Galleries
Columbus, OH • August 2017 to July 2022
Public Art Consultant • 900 North Studios
Indianapolis, IN • August 2021 to April 2022
Gallery Manager • The Galleries at Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI
Indianapolis, IN • April 2021 to October 2021
Assistant to the Deans • Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • January 2020 to April 2021
Registrar • Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • January 2018 to January 2020
Adjunct Faculty • Community College of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, PA • January 2017 to May 2017
Production Assistant • Re:NEW Festival, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Pittsburgh, PA • 2016
Preparator • Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Pittsburgh, PA • 2016
Center Coordinator • Indiana University Center for Art+Design
Columbus, IN • 2015 to 2017
Public Relations Coordinator • Grunwald Gallery of Art
Bloomington, IN • 2014 to 2015
Gallery Assistant • Gallery Sub Rosa
Bloomington, IN • 2013 - 2014
Studio Assistant • Tyson Skross
Bloomington, IN • 2010
Studio Assistant • Dietrich Wegner
Edinboro, PA • 2007 - 2009
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Board of Trustees Member • Friends of the Cultural Arts Center
Columbus, OH • 2021
Thesis Committee Member and Chair • Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • 2019 to 2021
Graduate Student Mentor • Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • 2019 to 2020
ImageOHIO 19 Artist Panel • The Shot Tower Gallery
Columbus, OH • 2019
Visual Arts Committee Member • Lotus World Music & Arts Festival
Bloomington, IN • 2014 to 2015
Planning Committee Member • Art Block Party
Bloomington, IN • 2011
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
“Beeler Gallery registrar co-curates exhibition at ROY G BIV” • Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • 2019
Implied Action: Performance Through Object • Wall Street International Magazine
online • 2015
Ellipsis, Volume 51 • Westminster College
Salt Lake City, UT • 2015
Friday’s Gallery Walk offers new exhibits downtown • The Herald-Times
Blooming, IN • 2014
“Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition” • Pittsburgh City Paper
Pittsburgh, PA • 2012
“Fuller Projects bring variety with rotating exhibits” • Indiana Daily Student
Bloomington, IN • 2010
Canvas Magazine, Volumes 13 & 14 • Indiana University
Bloomington, IN • 2010
“Gallery space for all: No experience needed” • Indiana Daily Student
Bloomington, IN • 2009
“Music, Art and Pancakes on Menu at 709 Railroad St,” • Our Town Newspaper
Johnstown, PA • 2009
Chimera Journal of Art & Literature, Volumes 5 & 6 • Edinboro University
Edinboro, PA • 2008 - 2009
“Art Scholarships Awarded,” • The Thistle Post
Edinboro, PA • 2008
Marla Roddy holds an MFA in Sculpture from Indiana University and a BFA in Sculpture and BA in Art History from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She is a professional artist in addition to developing a 10-year career in gallery management, curation, and arts administration. Her artistic practice is based in using meditative or ritualistic processes, such as repetitive hand sewing, to explore familial relationships and connections. By channelling distressed emotions, such as loss or anxiety, the work produced offers a form comfort. Marla currently lives and works in Indianapolis, IN, where she is the Assistant Registrar for Exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.
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EDUCATION
MFA – Fine Arts: Sculpture • Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
- Graduate Assistant, School of Fine Arts Gallery
- Coordinator, The Fuller Projects, experimental gallery
- Associate Instructor, 3D Design Fundamentals
BFA – Fine Arts: Sculpture • Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, PA
- Gallery Assistant, Bruce Gallery
BA – Art History • Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, PA
Summer Session – Art History & Photography • Studio Art Centers International
Florence, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Inked • Garfield Park Arts Center
Indianapolis, IN
2023
Artists Among Us: Season Two • Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, IN
Artifactuality • NE Sculpture Gallery Factory
Minneapolis, MN (Curated by Allison Baker & Janell Hammer)
Illuminated 2023 • Beech Grove Clay Works
Beech Grove, IN
2022
TINY XI: A Really Big Show • Gallery 924
Indianapolis, IN (Juried)
Artists Among Us • Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, IN
Healing Through Art • Nickel Plate Arts
Noblesville, IN (Juried)
Illuminated 2022 • Beech Grove Clay Works
Beech Grove, IN
2021
Sidewalk Art Gallery Mural • Circle Center Mall
Indianapolis, IN (Juried)
2020 - 2021
Dust: The Plates of the Present • Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
2019
Gmitter 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition • Bruce Gallery
Edinboro, PA (invitational)
Ohio State Fair Juried Fine Arts Exhibition • Cox Fine Arts Center
Columbus, OH (Juried by Jodi Rose Gonzales, Kelly & Kyle Phelps, Nicholas Hill)
ImageOHIO 19 • The Shot Tower Gallery / ROY G BIV Gallery
Columbus, OH (Juried by Jennifer Lange)
2018
A Woman’s Voice Through Art • Erie Art Gallery
Erie, PA (Juried by Cat Palmer, Alison Stinely, Jhenah Telyndru)
2017
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition • Trust Arts Education Center
Pittsburgh, PA (Juried by Lee Parker, John Peña, Lenore D. Thomas)
2016
Can We Talk? Memories, Miracles, and the Power of Things Unsaid • Stutz Art Gallery
Indianapolis, IN (Juried)
Hoosier Women in Art • Garfield Park Arts Center
Indianapolis, IN (Juried)
Hello To All This! • Circle City Industrial Complex
Indianapolis, IN (Juried by Working Girls artist collective)
2015
Collective Remix • Franklin Arts Center Resident Artists Gallery
Brainerd, MN (Curated by Martin Nelson)
Columbus Makes • Indiana University Center for Art+Design
Columbus, IN (Curated by Jennifer Riley)
Downeast Sculpture Indoor Exhibition • Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge
Greenville, NC (Juried)
2014
Paper & Stitch Juried Craft Exhibition • Franklin Arts Center Resident Artists Gallery
Brainerd, MN (Curated by Martin Nelson)
Internal Manifestations • Vault Gallery, Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center
Bloomington, IN (Solo)
2012
All I Can Do • Grunwald Gallery of Art
Bloomington, IN (Solo)
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition • Trust Arts Education Center
Pittsburgh, PA (Juried by Murray Horne, Michael Olijnyk, Linda Benedict-Jones)
Devotion • Bloomington Clay Studio
Bloomington, IN (Curated by Jeremy Sweet)
Recreation, Renewal, Rebirth • Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Pittsburgh, PA (Juried by the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors)
Without Justification • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
Candy Coated Chaos 1.3 • The Lodge
Bloomington, IN (Invitational)
Flesh, Blood, and Bone • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN (Curated by Peter Kenar and William Fillmore)
2011
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition • Trust Arts Education Center
Pittsburgh, PA (Juried by Murray Horne, Jason Busch, Kate Lydon)
The Kinsey Institute 6th Annual Juried Art Show • SoFA Gallery
Bloomington, IN (Juried by Betsy Stirratt, Garry Milius, Christopher Bedford)
2010
I Could Do Better • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
2009
Pancake Breakfast • 709 Railroad Street
Johnstown, PA (With Evan DiFlauro, Invitational by Mike Miller)
The Five Obstructions • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
2008
Body Exploration • Bates Gallery
Edinboro, PA (Solo)
Chimera Volume 6 Exhibition • Erie Art Museum
Erie, PA (Juried)
Michael V. Gmitter Memorial Exhibition • Bates Gallery
Edinboro, PA (Juried by Deborah Vahanian, Renee Thayer-Allison, Chuck Johnson, D.W. Martin, Terry McKelvey)
2007
Chimera Volume 5 Exhibition • Erie Art Museum
Erie, PA (Juried)
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Season Two: Follow the Mud - 2019 • Beeler Gallery
Columbus, OH
- Co-Organizer; Curated by Jo-ey Tang, Co-organized with Ian Ruffino
- Artists: Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Michel Auder & Michael Stickrod, Heide Hinrichs, Vier 5
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, Chapter Five - 2019 • Institute of Contemporary Art
Philadelphia, PA
- Co-Organizer; Curated by Jo-ey Tang, Co-organized with Ian Ruffino
- Artists: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka, fierce pussy
Pattern/Place - 2019 • ROY G BIV Gallery
Columbus, OH
- Curator
- Artists: Allison Baker, Patti Beachley, Cat Mailloux, Erica Mendoza, Jamie Lynn Williams
Moe Marks, Artist House: A Retrospective - 2019 • The Loft
Bloomington, IN
- Curator
- Artist: Moe Marks
The Final Show (Stoop Kids Never Leave the Stoop) - 2019 • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
- Curator/Organizer
Season One: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified – 2018-2019 • Beeler Gallery
Columbus, OH
- Co-Organizer; Curated by Jo-ey Tang, Co-organized with Ian Ruffino
- Artists: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka, fierce pussy
Art Night Local - 2017 • SpringHill Suites
Bloomington, IN
- Curator; co-curated with Lance Pruitt
- Artists: Clayton Blackwell, Tim Compton, Kristy Hughes, Sean Hurley, Caleb Knodell, Adam Reynolds
Implied Action: Performance Through Object - 2015 • Grunwald Gallery
Bloomington, IN
- Curator
- Artists: Carissa Carman, Mike Calway-Fagen, Carrie Mae Smith, Keith Allyn Spencer
Exquisite Installation - 2012 • The Fuller Projects
Bloomington, IN
- Curator
- Artists: Mike Burchfield, Terrence Heldreth, Roast Hoggmann (Ross Haughton), Eric Hunt, Dave Rowe, Jeremy Sweet, Suzanne Wyss
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Registrar for Exhibitions • Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, IN • April 2022 to Present
Registration Assistant • Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, IN • October 2021 to February 2022
Gallery Associate • Brandt-Roberts Galleries
Columbus, OH • August 2017 to July 2022
Public Art Consultant • 900 North Studios
Indianapolis, IN • August 2021 to April 2022
Gallery Manager • The Galleries at Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI
Indianapolis, IN • April 2021 to October 2021
Assistant to the Deans • Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • January 2020 to April 2021
Registrar • Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • January 2018 to January 2020
Adjunct Faculty • Community College of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, PA • January 2017 to May 2017
Production Assistant • Re:NEW Festival, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Pittsburgh, PA • 2016
Preparator • Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Pittsburgh, PA • 2016
Center Coordinator • Indiana University Center for Art+Design
Columbus, IN • 2015 to 2017
Public Relations Coordinator • Grunwald Gallery of Art
Bloomington, IN • 2014 to 2015
Gallery Assistant • Gallery Sub Rosa
Bloomington, IN • 2013 - 2014
Studio Assistant • Tyson Skross
Bloomington, IN • 2010
Studio Assistant • Dietrich Wegner
Edinboro, PA • 2007 - 2009
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Board of Trustees Member • Friends of the Cultural Arts Center
Columbus, OH • 2021
- Communications Committee Chair
Thesis Committee Member and Chair • Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • 2019 to 2021
Graduate Student Mentor • Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • 2019 to 2020
ImageOHIO 19 Artist Panel • The Shot Tower Gallery
Columbus, OH • 2019
Visual Arts Committee Member • Lotus World Music & Arts Festival
Bloomington, IN • 2014 to 2015
Planning Committee Member • Art Block Party
Bloomington, IN • 2011
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
“Beeler Gallery registrar co-curates exhibition at ROY G BIV” • Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH • 2019
Implied Action: Performance Through Object • Wall Street International Magazine
online • 2015
Ellipsis, Volume 51 • Westminster College
Salt Lake City, UT • 2015
Friday’s Gallery Walk offers new exhibits downtown • The Herald-Times
Blooming, IN • 2014
“Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition” • Pittsburgh City Paper
Pittsburgh, PA • 2012
“Fuller Projects bring variety with rotating exhibits” • Indiana Daily Student
Bloomington, IN • 2010
Canvas Magazine, Volumes 13 & 14 • Indiana University
Bloomington, IN • 2010
“Gallery space for all: No experience needed” • Indiana Daily Student
Bloomington, IN • 2009
“Music, Art and Pancakes on Menu at 709 Railroad St,” • Our Town Newspaper
Johnstown, PA • 2009
Chimera Journal of Art & Literature, Volumes 5 & 6 • Edinboro University
Edinboro, PA • 2008 - 2009
“Art Scholarships Awarded,” • The Thistle Post
Edinboro, PA • 2008