Marcy Avery has been a professional artist as well as an art teacher for 33 years. She has taught art at York High School for the past fifteen years. Her classes have included art foundations, all advanced art classes, fine crafts and  computer graphics. Prior to teaching at York High, Marcy taught art at Tabb Middle School for fourteen years. Marcy has also taught art in fifteen elementary schools in the City of Hampton and at St. Mary Star of the Sea in Phoebus. She has also taught art in adult education classes for Christopher Newport University and the City of Hampton.

Marcy received her B.A. in Art from Virginia Tech in 1974. She has also studied at the University of Salzburg in Austria. In addition to teaching art, Marcy has held various art jobs including archeological illustrator for Colonial Williamsburg, marine biology illustrator for VIMS, entomology illustrator for the Virginia Tech Entomology Department, freelance architectural renderer, magazine illustrator and painter.  Her illustrations have been published in two books, one written by Ivor Noel Hume of Colonial Williamsburg and another by Professor William Robinson of Virginia Tech.