Marlie Escoto (b. 1999, Miami, FL) is a visual artist who received a BFA degree in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2022. The vibrant colors, natural environment, and active ecology that were part of her community while growing up in Miami inspire her work. She channels her love of art and psychology to investigate how nature, the female body, and spiritual awareness merge together to create new visual narratives. Escoto's multi-disciplinary practice includes photography, printmaking, digital media, sculpture, and textiles, allowing her to challenge, question, and reconcile her curiosity and spiritual appetite. Her installation work plays with digital and organic elements to give form to the often unseen emotional growth we each go through over time. She has worked at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art as part of the Family Programming Department to help with public events as a Durwood Intern. She has worked as a shop assistant for the KCAI Printmaking Department where she managed the lithography area. She is currently working in Kansas City, MO.