M. V. Moran earned her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. Moran has a BFA in Painting from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. After several years of working at the UO in Student Services, she resigned from her position and began her dream of becoming a professional artist. Moran has exhibited prolifically throughout the Pacific Northwest. Moran works at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in the Stroke Program, an Artist-in-Residence for the Lane Arts Council, a faculty member at Lane Community College and has taught at Bushnell University in Eugene, Oregon. Moran is a lifelong Oregonian and has been a Eugenian for the past thirty years.

 Photo by: Joe Paulet
Neptune Birch