Michelle Martin, MFA

About

Michelle Martin is a professor of art, specializing in printmaking and digital collage. An active artist working in all print media, drawing and digital collage, her work has been shown in more than 260 national and international exhibitions since 1995, including venues in Australia, Scotland, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Venezuela, Iceland, Italy, Turkey and England. She has won numerous awards, including an Oklahoma Artist of Excellence Award in 2003, the 2007 Print Prize in the Bradley Print and Drawing Exhibition, an Oklahoma Visual Arts Fellowship (Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition) in 2008, three purchase prizes for the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition (in 2013, 2014 and 2016) and a Materials Award for work in the 2017 Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial. Her work is in several private, public and university collections, including the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Akron Art Museum Art Library Program, the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Bradbury Art Museum, Kohler Library, Muscarelle Museum of Art, The Anchor Graphics print archives, The College of Notre Dame of Maryland permanent collection, Rutgers Center for the Innovative Paperand the Southwest Collection and Colorprint Collection at Texas Tech University.

Awards & Honors

• Print “Evening at Claudio’s” purchased by the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, 2021
• Semi-finalist, 95TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Jurors: David Campany, curator and managing director of programs at the International Center of Photography in New York; and Larissa Goldston, director/owner of Universal Limited Art Editions in Bay Shore, NY, 2020
• Les Christensen Excellence in Art Purchase Award, DELTA NATIONAL SMALL PRINTS EXHIBITION; Juror: Gretchen L. Wagner, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum, 2020
• Recognition Award/Purchase Award, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; PACIFIC STATES BIENNIAL NORTH AMERICAN PRINT EXHIBITION, Hilo, HI, 2019
• Boxcar Press Materials Award, BOSTON PRINTMAKERS NORTH AMERICAN PRINT BIENNIAL; Juror: Judith Brodie, Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2018
• Recognition Award/Purchase Award, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; PSNB MASTER PRINTMAKERS INVITATIONAL, East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, HI, 2016
• Chucki Bradbury Purchase Award, DELTA NATIONAL SMALL PRINTS EXHIBITION, Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR. Juror: Dennis Michael Jon, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2016
• Brackett-Krennerich Purchase Award, DELTA NATIONAL SMALL PRINTS EXHIBITION, Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR. Juror: Lyle Williams, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, 2014
• Brackett-Krennerich Purchase Award, DELTA NATIONAL SMALL PRINTS EXHIBITION, Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR. Juror: Anne Coffin, Director, International Print Center, New York, NY, 2013
• McClain’s Materials Award, ATLANTA PRINT BIENNIAL, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Juror: Beth Grabowski, Professor of Printmaking, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2011
• Exhibition Merit Award, 8TH JANET TURNER NATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION, Juror: Ruth Weisberg, Dean of the Roski School of Fine Arts, Univ. of Southern California, 2010
• Oklahoma Visual Arts Fellowship, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. Juror: Elizabeth Hahn, Hahn Ross Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2008
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tulsa, 2007
• Outstanding Achievement in Printmaking Award, 31ST BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL PRINT AND DRAWING EXHIBITION, Juror: Judith K. Brodsky, Professor Emerita, Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers University and Founder of Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, 2007
• Juror’s Discretionary Award, LOS ANGELES PRINTMAKER’S 18TH NATIONAL EXHIBITION. Juror: Ruth Weisberg, Printmaker and Dean of the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
• Materials Award, THE BOSTON PRINTMAKERS NORTH AMERICAN PRINT EXHIBITION. Juror: Joann Moser, Senior Curator of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., 2005
• Artist Award of Excellence, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. Juror: Patricia C. Phillips, Executive Editor, Art Journal and Professor of Art at the State University of New York, New Paltz, 2003
• Best of Show, PRESSURE: 3rd BIENNIAL CONTEMPORARY PRINT EXHIBITION, Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, CO. Juror: Clinton Cline, Professor of Printmaking, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2000
• Purchase Award, 11TH NATIONAL DRAWING & PRINT COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION, Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Juror: Jan Howard, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1999
• Purchase Award, AMERICAN DRAWING BIENNIAL, Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Juror: Ann Philbin, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, NY, 1998