Stacey's love for the tactile and visc eral arts is traced back to elementary school. Ms. Mrva was often found sketching her ideas for the latest trends in fashion as well as designing accessories.  Her dreams of the Fashion Institute of Technology and becoming an accomplished fashion designer led her to the sewing machine, where she obtained the basics for a lot of her work today.

The advancement of her creativity stemmed into painting, drawing, and eventually metal-smithing in high school.  Stacey realized that through metal, she could create and design on a much deeper and cathartic level.  The new direction in her art shifted the dream from fashion to metal-smithing.

Ms. Mrva attended Syracuse University from 1993 - 1997.  Stacey has found a way to join all of her experience and work with several types of media.  She has broken the boundaries of conventional form and married fabric, metal, plaster, clay and light to ignite the senses.  Stacey's work is both elegant and humorous, while maintaining a level of freshness and professionalism that is rare in such a young artist.

Stacey Mrva has permanent work around Rochester, New York that can be viewed at the Lodge at Woodcliff, Inspiration Designs, the Meridian Centre Office Park, Gateway Framing, Karma 355 and Sienna Grill And Bar. She currently works in Rochester and Boston.