Maryann graduated from Art Center College of Design in 1984 with a degree in Illustration.  She was a freelance illustrator for 10 years after graduation.  In 1994 she joined the Walt Disney Studios as a background painter in the Feature Animation Division.  Her credits include "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Mulan," "Fantasia 2000," and more recently "Atlantis."   Currently, she is Art Director for the sequel of "Lilo & Stitch".

Away from the studio, Maryann combines her love of travel and painting, with both on site studies and more complex studio works, she pursues a variety of subjects and strives to find fresh ways of approaching familiar ones.   She makes her home and studio in Burbank, California.