EAFA welcomes Guest Artist Michael Magrath!

Michael Magrath is an award-winning sculptor, Faculty Chair, and Atelier Instructor at Gage Academy. He has spent most of his life in the Pacific Northwest. He discovered figurative sculpture while in his early thirties, and has since dedicated his life to the betterment of his craft and the furtherance of sculptural art.

Primarily self-taught, he has nonetheless studied and taught in a number of rich sculptural environments, including the University of Washington, the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, and Gage Art Academy.

Michael has studied and taught in Florence, Rome, and London, majored in Mythology at Reed College, and received his MFA in Sculpture and Public Art from UW Seattle, where he taught public art, wood and metal fabrication, and foundry. Since 2004, he has taught at the Gage Art Academy of Art, where he is serving as Acting Artistic Director and has, since 2014, run the Sculpture Atelier. Magrath has numerous public and private commissions; his awards include the IFRAA best Religious Sculpture and ARC First Prize in Sculpture.