About ALICE MARTIN
Alice Martin is a former Alaskan whose work has been exhibited in more than twenty four gallery shows, twelve local and national invitational exhibitions, seventeen regional and national juried exhibitions – while winning major awards in five of those exhibitions and purchase awards in two. Her work is included in three museum collections and three corporate and Alaska state office branches. Alice has won four grants and commissions including a commission by the Alaska State Council on the Arts to create the Governor’s Awards for the Arts that were presented to the award recipients of 1984 as well as an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, with funding from the National Endowment For the Arts.
A career highlight was selection for the West Coast Collection shown at the official residence of Vice President and Mrs. Walter Mondale in Washington D.C. along with a special dinner for the artists. Included was Alice’s porcelain vase on loan from the Anchorage Museum of History & Art. Sponsors were the National Endowment for the Arts and Vice President & Mrs. Mondale. It was curated by Henry Hopkins of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This collection went on to be shown at the National Museum of American Art, also in Washington D.C.
After leaving Alaska over 25 years ago in pursuit of other creative outlets, Alice has happily returned to the world of art that has driven her since childhood and she is armed with new energy that fuels her passion for her very recent return to pottery as well as her new medium of photography.
Currently, her work is available at For ArtSake Gallery, Newport, OR. Also, she can be reached through her two pages on Facebook, Alice Martin Clay Studio and Alice Martin Northwest Photographics or her website at www.alicemartinart.com. She maintains a shop on Etsy as AliceMartinStudio.
Artist Statement:
“I am driven to create and my recent adventure in photography satisfies a need that words cannot express. I feel the same about my recent re-discovery of clay. Clay happily responds to my every whim and it gives me a great joy that is very personal. It’s as though it’s alive and we have marvelous conversations together. I have been away from clay for way too long and now that we are reunited this late in life, I just hope I have time enough to listen to all it has to tell me.”
A career highlight was selection for the West Coast Collection shown at the official residence of Vice President and Mrs. Walter Mondale in Washington D.C. along with a special dinner for the artists. Included was Alice’s porcelain vase on loan from the Anchorage Museum of History & Art. Sponsors were the National Endowment for the Arts and Vice President & Mrs. Mondale. It was curated by Henry Hopkins of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This collection went on to be shown at the National Museum of American Art, also in Washington D.C.
After leaving Alaska over 25 years ago in pursuit of other creative outlets, Alice has happily returned to the world of art that has driven her since childhood and she is armed with new energy that fuels her passion for her very recent return to pottery as well as her new medium of photography.
Currently, her work is available at For ArtSake Gallery, Newport, OR. Also, she can be reached through her two pages on Facebook, Alice Martin Clay Studio and Alice Martin Northwest Photographics or her website at www.alicemartinart.com. She maintains a shop on Etsy as AliceMartinStudio.
Artist Statement:
“I am driven to create and my recent adventure in photography satisfies a need that words cannot express. I feel the same about my recent re-discovery of clay. Clay happily responds to my every whim and it gives me a great joy that is very personal. It’s as though it’s alive and we have marvelous conversations together. I have been away from clay for way too long and now that we are reunited this late in life, I just hope I have time enough to listen to all it has to tell me.”
