About

Marcie Brozyna is an award-winning upstate New York artist, sociology professor, and ordained Presbyterian minister. Guided by a Spirit of love and justice, Marcie enjoys creation and care-taking. Marrying patriotic iconography with period pads, postpartum underwear, infant receiving blankets, and dissection pins, Marcie’s fiber art explores reproductive justice in the United States. After the stillbirth death of her first son, Rumi, Marcie’s art serves to raise awareness of the often preventable tragedy of stillbirth/infant death and maternal death in the USA. Her work “Blood Coming Out of Her Betsy Ross” won Best In Show for “Made in New York 2025,” at Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York.  

As a mother, who values all children, Marcie seeks to raise hers to be compassionate and strong. As a gardener, who values the earth, Marcie seeks to raise flowers to be sustenance for her local insects and birds. As a human- a wife, a friend, a child of God- Marcie renews her spirit through forest bathing, lake-swimming, and cat snuggling. An avid reader and NPR listener (and donor!) Marcie prioritizes understanding the current events and forces moving with her local, national, and global world(s). She is intentional in studying the tangible effects of these forces in her own life and those around her- feeding her art. 

Marcie has undergraduate degrees in both Art and Art History and earned a Masters of Divinity at Palmer Seminary.  She is grateful for the ways in which her education has taught her to see with clarity and given her voice to speak with strength. 

You can listen to an interview with Marcie about her theological wrestling as a "loss mom" and her chaplaincy work with other bereaved parents at "Blessed are they that Mourn" on the As Long As I'm Living podcast.