Port Austin Residency Awarded to Barbara Martin

Djerassi Artist Residency and Ford Family Foundation Fellowship Awards

May 20, 2022
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program has announced that Barbara Martin has been awarded a 30-day onsite residency at Djerassi with a fellowship made possible from The Ford Family Foundation. It is scheduled for 2023. The Djerassi Resident Artists Program is recognized internationally for its pre-eminence as an artist residency which strives to provide the best possible residency experience for artists of superior talent from a diverse range of backgrounds and geographical locations. Djerassi is located in a spectacular rural setting of redwood forests and coastal grasslands in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Northern California overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The residency provides uninterrupted time for work, reflection, and collegial interaction in a setting of great natural beauty.

Straight from the security vault -  specially priced and ready for your wall!

Now showing: The Red Hot Series (2016) explores the raw emotions of the color red, from the fiery to the lusciously seductive. Created as intuitive expressions of emotion, these original paintings explode with energy and passion. Don't miss this chance to bring the warmth and excitement of red into your space.

These first quality paintings have been displayed in galleries, at solo and nationally juried exhibitions and invitational shows. But for the past several years they have been in storage while we moved cross country and, well, because pandemic. Hence this "retrospective" to bring them back into the light they so deserve.

Each piece is a one-of-a-kind original painting on canvas, and comes to you signed by the artist (me, Barbara Martin), wired and ready to hang.  Measuring 20”x20” square, the pieces are beautiful individually displayed or formed into perfect rows or grids to fit your decor needs.

Red Hot Retro is available exclusively through my new online gallery exhibition space and shop. I will personally wrap your purchase with care and send it along. Gift notes cheerfully included!

This limited time offer runs through March 2022. After that, prices return to normal.

SuperPly and Friends on display at the Spiva Center for the Arts in Joplin MO

SuperPly and Friends is in a joint show with assemblage artist Christopher Lynch called Wild Things. The show runs from January 7 to March 5, 2022 at the wonderful Spiva Center Main Gallery. See Barbara’s artist talk at Spiva and watch her live paint during the opening. Spiva Exhibits Director Shaun Conroy is wild about the exhibit. See Shaun discussing the exhibit on Living Well, KSN 4 TV.

Eastward to Wyoming series to be on display at Ventures Gallery in Rehoboth DE

The Distance Between…

The Jansen Art Center in Lynden, WA is the site an exhibition of my works called The Distance Between…

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Career Opportunity Grant Award

June 10, 2019
The Oregon Arts Commission has announced Barbara Martin is a recipient of a Career Opportunity Grant for 2019. The Career Opportunity program supports individual Oregon artists by enabling them to take advantage of timely opportunities to enhance their artistic careers. The Arts Commission determines awards based on peer panel review, number of applications and available grant funds.

Jentel Arts Fellowship

March 1, 2019
Barbara Martin has been awarded a fellowship by the Jentel Artist Residency Program.  Jentel is located in a rural setting on a working cattle ranch in the Lower Piney Creek Valley approximately 20 miles southeast of Sheridan, Wyoming. Barbara will be among the award recipients focusing on their own creative projects at this working retreat for artists and writers.  A panel of arts and literary professionals review samples of art work and manuscripts before making final recommendations for residency awards.
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Hypatia-in-the-Woods Arts Residency

September 16, 2018
Barbara Martin has been awarded an artist residency by Hypatia-in-the-Woods.  Hypatia-in-the-Woods was created to provide physical and mental space, solitude, and time for women to pursue their creative endeavors. Hypatia-in-the-Woods' residence, Holly House, is located on 3.5 acres of a Pacific Northwest cedar and fir forest. Only a few miles outside the small town of Shelton, WA, and near the Olympic National Forest, it sits above Hammersley Inlet, a part of the Salish Sea (Puget Sound).

Laser Chicken wins Blue Ribbon

June 22, 2018
Jurors at the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts awarded Laser Chicken a Blue Ribbon. This, the 55th edition of the annual arts festival in Lake Oswego OR, runs from Jun 22 to Jun 24 2018.

RACC Professional Development Grant Award

May 29, 2018
The Regional Arts & Culture Council of Portland, Oregon is awarding a Professional Development Grant to Barbara Martin to attend a 3-week residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, WY. The review panel’s recommendation was approved by the RACC Board of Directors. An independent nonprofit organization, the Regional Arts & Culture Council supports the creative economy in greater Portland by equitably providing funding and services to artists and art organizations; managing and growing a diverse, nationally acclaimed, public art program; and developing enduring public and private partnerships.

Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Awards Artist Residency

March 28, 2018
Barbara Martin has been awarded an artist residency by The Brush Creek Foundations for the Arts. The residency will take place at Brush Creek Ranch, located 18 miles outside of Saratoga, Wyoming. Brush Creek Ranch, a century old, 30,000-acre guest and working cattle ranch at the base of the Medicine Bow National Forest in Saratoga, Wyoming offers visual artists, writers, musicians and composers from all backgrounds, level of expertise, media and genres time and space for artistic exploration.