Marc S. Lazard was trained by Dr. Betty Edwards, author of The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Since 1992, he has taught drawing and trained teachers in the United States, France, India, Haiti, Italy, Benin (West Africa) and South Korea. In 2002, he was a recipient of the Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship. In 2004, he received a Master of Education degree from Harvard University.