Marcy B. Freedman is an artist and art historian who lives and works in Westchester County. After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley, she received a master's degree in Renaissance Art from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in Modern Art from Princeton University.
Marcy has worked as an adjunct professor at Pace University, Marymount Manhattan College, Fordham University's Marymount College, and Westchester Community College.  She has also taught abroad, working for the European Division of the University of Maryland in Belgium, Spain, and Greece.

As an artist, Marcy has explored many media - from painting and collage to photography, video and performance art. Examples of her art have been included in more than 175 exhibitions throughout the United States, including museum shows in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California and Montana.  In addition to pursuing her own artistic path, Marcy often participates in collaborative art adventures.  Since 2002, she has worked with Gene Panczenko on video projects.  Since 2003, she has been a member of the 8-person live painting and performance group called EYE.  In 2005, she was a founding member of the writers/performers group known as WORD of MOUTH.  In 2006, she and two other women formed The Cathouse Associates, in order to make sequentially collaborative works on paper.

As an art historian, Marcy writes, curates, and gives lectures.  She has spoken at local art institutions, such as the Katonah Museum of Art and Rockefeller State Park, on a wide variety of topics from the history of landscape imagery in art to the struggles facing women artists in the 20th century.  In the fall of 2007, she will be a guest speaker at the Scarsdale Women’s Club, speaking about portraits of women by Velazquez, Goya, and Picasso.  This fall, she is also working with a professor at Ohio State University to curate a video exhibition called First Person Video, which will be shown in Beacon, NY.

Marcy is the recipient of a variety of grants and awards. In 2001, she received the Arts Award for Education and Community Service in the Arts from the Westchester Arts Council. In 1998, she received a generous grant from the Polaroid Corporation. Her art has garnered awards from the Holter Museum of Art, the Maryland Federation of Art, and the Faber Birren Foundation. On four occasions, Marcy was awarded an S.O.S. grant (Special Opportunities Stipend) from the New York Foundation for the Arts.