Marissa Huber

Artist & Creative Instigator

Marissa Huber is an artist, connector, and creative instigator for the Carve Out Time for Art community and co-author of “The Motherhood of Art”. She works primarily in water-based mediums like gouache and acrylic, cut paper, and digital mediums and is interested in exploring memory, space, and color in her paintings and surface pattern designs.

She creates playful & colorful patterns that aim to bring people a moment of delight, and a bit of sunshine. Marissa grew up with bold patterns in the background of favorite memories, and wants to create that for others.

Sharing her work on Instagram and finding kindred spirits through "The 100 Day Project' and the Carve Out Time for Art community made a huge impact in her art practice. Marissa is passionate about keeping it real, and encouraging others who are not full time artists to make the most of their time and circumstances.

Her patterns are licensed on home goods, surfboards, record album covers, and bags. Her work has been featured at Minted, HGTV magazine, Create! Magazine, Brooklyn Art Library, and Palette Perfect book. She was awarded a "2019 Artist on the Rise" by HoneyBook and Rising Tide Society, and has spoken as a guest lecturer at Drexel University, New Mexico State University, and Teen Sketch Program through Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Her greatest joy (besides her kids) is connecting with kindred spirits over an experience, a funny story, or shared dreams and feeling positively lit up. She believes in taking her dreams quite seriously, but tries not to take herself too seriously. She has a professional career as a Workplace Strategy Director where she helps companies figure out that to do with her space, and focuses on employee engagement. She lives in South Florida with her (painter) husband Mike East, two kids, mom, and chocolate lab.