IDAHO FALLS – For Marilyn Hoff Hansen, sculpting and painting is a passion that has earned her recognition across the country.

The 94-year-old Idaho Falls woman has been sculpting since she was old enough to hold clay in her hands. She’s had work displayed at universities and galleries nationwide, including at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and has won numerous awards.

She specializes in sculpting figures, like people and animals. Horses are featured in her most prominent pieces.

“I grew up on a horse,” Hansen tells EastIdahoNews.com.

Much of her art was made in an old milk barn on the family farm near the Old Butte Soccer Complex. The building had been converted into a studio decades earlier and houses many of her unfinished projects to this day.

Although retired from

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