It was there that she was able to expand on her passion as an artist.She was able to explore other mediums that are a constant impact in her art. In high school she was exposed to sculpture and printmaking and has been working with those mediums since. That passion led to becoming a sculpture major at VCU and later a Masters in Art in Teaching at the Corcoran college with an emphasis in printmaking.
Mara has had her work on display in several different settings such as White walls at the Corcoran, Next show for the Corcoran, DC convention center with Dick Gregory , Pleasure and pain in art by the year exhibit at the Del Ray Artisans gallery
She has also given a lot or workshops about art practice outside of the classroom like WISSIT Designing with the audience in mind, NAEA Natural vs Synthetic fabric dyeing and notan, positive and negative space and linoleum block printing