Miriam Ecker is a native New Yorker. Her formal art training covered the field of commercial and advertising art. She was a professional illustrator for fifteen years. Seeking further realization of her creativity, she began exploring various other artistic mediums. Portraits and murals held her interest for a while, but her drive to expand her techniques resulted in a wide range of accomplishments. At six one-woman gallery shows, she has exhibited watercolors, acrylics, oils, pen and ink, etchings, serigraphs and lithographs. She is also a sculptor, a poetess and an avid music lover. In 1966, cambell Wyly, then the assistant curator of the Museum of Modern Art, selected on of her canvases for representation at a juried major exhibition of American contemporary artists. She has won honors and awards for her paintings and graphics. her works are in numerous private collections from the East Coast across the country to California.