Marian McLaughlin is an art educator, visual art, and musician.
She teaches mixed media art to elementary students and leads community-oriented art workshops. She has displayed her artwork at Ladew Gardens for their annual Garden Glow and she was commissioned by the Creative Alliance to design lanterns for the Lantern Parade in 2022.
During her music career, she toured extensively in the United States and the U.K., released four studio albums, and performed a NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert. She was a Strathmore Artist-in-Residence in 2015 and led an ensemble for the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage series in 2018. McLaughlin was a featured guest for WTMD’s Baltimore Hit Parade and recorded a live set in their studio.
Her latest album Alcove is a compilation of peaceful songs inspired by time spent outside gardening and walking in the woods. The album highlights the joy and gratitude felt from witnessing simple yet transcendental moments in nature, like watching the golden hour, fireflies emerging, a hummingbird zipping by, or two hawks flying overhead.