Percy Martin
Percy Martin is an American artist and teacher. Martin has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1947 and has taught several generations of Washington area art students, including the University of Maryland, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and finally at the Sidwell Friends School, where he taught from 1979 to 2009.
Percy Martin
- Name
- Percy Martin
- Birthplace
- Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- Occupation
- Artist, retired art teacher
- Known for
- Allegorical printmaking
- Born
- 1943 · Honolulu.
- Education
- Corcoran School of the Arts & Design
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Percy Martin is an American artist and teacher. Martin has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1947 and has taught several generations of Washington area art students, including the University of Maryland, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and finally at the Sidwell Friends School, where he taught from 1979 to 2009.
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Biography
Biography
Percy Martin studied at Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. Employment is recorded with University of Maryland and Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. Work by Percy Martin is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Key facts
• Name — Percy Martin • Birthplace — Honolulu, Hawaii, United States • Occupation — Artist, retired art teacher • Known for — Allegorical printmaking
Education
Education
Martin studied art and graduated from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.
Artwork
Artwork
For over three decades, Martin has been working on a series of technical prints which detail the life, culture and history of an imaginary Bushmen people born out of Martin's imagination. Scenes from the Bushworld play out in Martin's mind as sharply as a movie. The most mundane objects can send him into a cross-dimensional corkscrew. While vacationing in the Ukraine in 1995, for instance, he picked up a smooth, oval stone on a river bank and immediately fell into a quasi-hallucination wherein angry Bushwomen were trying to crack a sacred bird's stone egg with a crystal egg to become High Priestess. "If I could've gotten a jet helicopter, I would've left that second," says Martin. His work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Washington Post, the City of Washington, DC, and the University of Maryland, and has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums, universities, and arts organization such as the Washington Project for the Arts.
Awards
Martin was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1966, and nine years later, in 1975 he was also awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in-Residence award.
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- 1.Richard, Paul. Out of Prints. The Washington Post. October 6, 1982.
- 2.Percy Martin. Art Impact USA.
- 3.A Tribute to Percy Martin. Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC.
- 4.Staff Picks: Cardboard Cities, Choral Singing, and Cross-Stitch. The Paris Review. 2020-07-31.
- 5.Kernan, Michael. Percy Martin, Myth Maker. The Washington Post. May 17, 1989.
- 6.Alumni US Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University. alumnius.net.
- 7.Ochoa, Guiomar Barbi. Bushmen Dreams. Patch. October 20, 2011.
- 8.World Without End. Washington City Paper. 16 May 2003.
- 9.Percy Martin. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- 10.Marchand, Anne. Percy Martin - Print Marker. Painterly Visions. October 21, 2011.
- 11.Arty stuff this week… Adventures of Hoogrrl!.
- 12."Bushmen Dreams" at Parish Gallery The Georgetown Dish. www.thegeorgetowndish.com.
- 13.20 Years of Prints for the Washington Print Club's 40th Anniversary Georgetown University Library. www.library.georgetown.edu.
- 14.Selections from the Artery Collection. American University.
- 15.CATALYST: Washington Project for the Arts presents its 35th anniversary exhibition. Washington Project for the Arts. November 19, 1988.
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