November Featured Member Artist: Martha Knox

The Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter proudly announces Martha Knox as our November Featured Member Artist. Please click on Martha's images to the right for more information.

Martha Knox received her BFA in studio arts from the Ohio State University in 2001. While living in Columbus for five years she widely exhibited at independent art spaces, cafes, and hair salons, and received the Simson Award for work in the Ohio Art League's 2003 Fall Juried Exhibition. After teaching and traveling in South Korea for a year, she moved to Philadelphia to earn her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (class of '06). She fast fell in love with the city and has settled in Germantown. She has most recently shown in City Hall and the Thomas Eakins House, and in 2008 fullfilled a month-long residency to create new work at the Artcroft Creative Center in Carlise, Kentucky.

Martha has often utilized her teaching and art-making skills to address issues of social concern. She has been a teaching artist with the Mural Arts Advocates and the Multicultural Youth Exchange, and twice instructed students at Congreso de Latinos Unidos in the creation of community-based murals. She also contributed to a collaborative quilt made by members of the Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia chapter to help promote the embroidery work of women in Afghanistan. Martha will be participating in POST this year with Five Pack in Mount Airy: www.fivepackphilly.com.

CONTACT INFO:
website: www.marthaknox.com
phone: 330-242-4741
blog: wordsonwoodcuts.blogspot.com

SAVE THE DATE: Reception for "What They Taught Us"

The culminating exhibition for our collaborative book project completed back in June with students of Arise Academy Charter High School is now installed in the 2nd floor hallway that leads to the Prints and Pictures Department of the Free Library, Central Branch, 20th and Vine Streets. Each case contains one of the accordion books, a mirror that allows one to see the reverse side of the book, pictures of our collaboration sessions at Arise, and information about the project, the students, and the WCA.

Project participants include WCA members Marie Elcin, Ruth Schanbacher, Katie Haegele, Bonnie MacAllister, Rachel Udell, Allison Altergott, Ellie Brown, and Ellen Bonett along with Arise students Dianne Pough, Braejean Turner, Jasmine Tyler, Jacquaya Randolph, Shartece Brown, Miaya Veal, and Jyqueen Galloway.

The exhibit will be on view through October 29th during library hours.

What They Taught Us Reception
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 4:00pm
Central Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA