Environmental Multidisciplinary Artist

Marley Massey (b.1998, Maryland) is a multidisciplinary environmental artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Through the use of clay, earth matter, photography, and collage, her practice captures a response and archive of fleeting elemental activity, celestial cycles, and transient conditions in landscape. By utilizing wild clay and recycled materials, she speaks to unearth the reciprocal relationship between humans and earth.Marley received a BFA from Salisbury University in 2019 and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2022. In 2021, she was an artist in residence at MassMoCA and has exhibited her work in various regional group shows. In the Fall of 2025, she was a Visiting Ceramics Instructor at Salisbury University in Maryland. She is currently based in Philadelphia, PA, where she teaches ceramics at Black Hound Clay Studio South and The Clay Studio.Email: [email protected]