Marcía Morse was raised in Hawai'i and earned her AB with honors from Harvard University, after which she spent nearly three years living in Quito, Ecuador, where she began her study of printmaking.  She earned her MFA in Printmaking from Stanford University before returning to Hawai'i and is currently working on her dissertation in the PhD program in Political Science, from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Since 1984, Morse has been teaching at Honolulu Community College where she is Professor of Art and Chair for Humanities and Social Sciences.  She is co-founder, with Laura Smith, of the Honolulu Printmaking Workshop.  Morse is active as an artist, art critic and curator and has written for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Weekly, and Art in America.