You might not have guessed it, but the quiet  artist we know as Marcia Coppel spent many years as a speech pathologist in the Montgomery County Public Schools.  As a child she was drawn to the visual arts, graduating high school with a major in art.  After that her studies at George Washington University took her in the direction of speech therapy, which became her major and her field of expertise after securing a post-graduate degree from the University of Maryland.