Born in 1941 in Taylorville, Illinois, Marjorie Schick was a jewelry artist and professor of art at Pittsburg State University. She became known for her wearable sculptures. Schick was raised by her mother, an artist and art educator, and recalls being interested in sewing and fashion early in her life. She planned to be an art teacher throughout high school and graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s art education program (BS, 1963). Schick and her husband Jim, a historian, went on to pursue higher degrees at Indiana University, where Schick studied jewelry under ACC Gold Medalist Alma Eikerman (MFA, 1966). Eikerman had a profound influence on Schick, and the two remained close throughout their careers. Toward the end of her graduate studies, Schick began experimenting with non-precious materials and had soon built up a collection of sculptural pieces in papier-mâché, including two bracelets that were featured in an exhibition at the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Arts and Design). Schick continued to create works that confused traditional classification as jewelry or sculpture, and ultimately began incorporating performative encounters into her practice to further emphasize the role of the body in her work. Schick and husband Jim jointly accepted faculty positions at Pittsburg State University in Kansas in 1967, where the two were beloved professors for more than 50 years. Her bold and pioneering creations have been exhibited around the world and are represented within the permanent collections of institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received the 2002 Kansas Governor’s Arts Award and was selected for an oral history interview for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 2004. Marjorie Schick was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2000. She died in 2017 at the age of 76.