Marley Massey (b.1998, Maryland) is a multidisciplinary environmental artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Through the use of clay, painting, drawing, photography and recycled materials, her creative practice is rooted in the act of noticing and interpreting temporal elemental activity and celestial cycles in landscape.

Chosen color-ways mimic seasonality, solstices, equinoxes, and hues sweeping throughout the sky. The recurring use of circles depicting the sun and moon represent the rhythmic repetition and cyclical nature of earth's processes. Her work in clay specifically serves as a conduit, echoing the earth to sky connection, and the fleeting transient conditions occurring in between. 

Biography

Marley Massey received a BFA from Salisbury University in 2019 and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2022. Select group exhibitions include various regional group shows. She has been an Artist in Residence at MassMoCA in 2021 and Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft in 2026. In the Fall of 2025, she was a Visiting Ceramics Instructor at Salisbury University in Maryland. She is currently a ceramics instructor at Black Hound Clay Studio South and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia.