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Bobby Martin

Ozark Natural Foods

part of a series on Native

About the speaker

Bobby C. Martin is an artist/educator/facilitator who works out of his Martin Mountain Studio near West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma.

Martin’s artwork is exhibited and collected internationally and has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions. His current project, Altars of Reconciliation, is a three-person show featuring Martin, Erin Shaw (Chickasaw) and Tony Tiger (Sac & Fox/Muscogee/Seminole) that focuses on the experiences of the artists as Native Americans and as Christians, and is currently traveling throughout the United States. Martin’s work is in numerous museum collections, including the Philbrook Museum and Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Museum of the Great Plains in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Georgia Art Museum in Athens, Georgia.

An enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma, Martin currently holds a Professor of Visual Arts position at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and he frequently leads printmaking workshops and artist retreats at his studio and at various museums and art centers around the world.

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