MIRTALA graduated from the Boston Museum School and was awarded a Traveling Scholarship. She studied in Paris with Zadkine at La Grande Chaumiere and with Couturier at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. Upon return, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University. She held numerous solo shows and her work is in many public and private collections.

Mirtala has written poetry and published it in combination with images of her sculptures. Adding selected music, she created videos, which eventually unfolded into a multi-media stage performance, involving a composer and expressive movement.

My sculpture is a tangible expression of every step on my inner journey and is, therefore, inseparable from my life. By going within, as in the sculpture “Path to Self”, I feel connected to the center of every other human being, and art then becomes a direct dialogue and communication, a sharing of human spirit.