Lucia De Marinis graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1984. She also has a BA in Italian Literature from Carleton University. She studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome with the assistance of a scholarship from the Italian government, and completed several years of private study with Ugo Chyurlia, a graduate of the the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice (1932). Lucia has been teaching at the Ottawa School of Art since 1988 and in the Department of Media and Design Studies at Algonquin College since 1994. She taught in the Department of Visual and Creative Arts at St. Lawrence College from 1988 to 1991, and in the children's program of the Nepean Visual Arts Centre from 1994 to 1998. She has exhibited her work in numerous solo, group, and juried shows in Canada and the USA. Her work was featured on the program and poster for the Ottawa International Jazz Festival in 1991, and is included in corporate, public, and private collections, including the City of Ottawa, Minto Developments, AIT Corporation, and Clarica.