Love Letters to Your Family History With Bobby C. Martin
“Celebrate Your Family History” with Muscogee (Creek) artist Bobby C. Martin
Knowing where we come from is crucially important to know where we’re going. Join artist Bobby C. Martin in a celebration of family heritage that will involve creating artworks based on your personal collections of family photos, letters, and whatever material you want to include. Beginning with an artist talk on how Martin came to use his own family photos as the cornerstone of his art practice, we will create a collage project and a photo album that helps to tell your family’s story. Come prepared with copies of photographs, letters, newspaper clippings—anything you would like to use that helps tell your family's story.
This workshop was not recorded. Please view our previously recorded workshop with Bobby C. Martin!
Suggested Supplies (MONAH will provide general suggested materials, participants are encouraged to bring personal collage materials)
Collage Materials: printed scans of family photos, mementos, books, or other materials. Suggestions: Family letters, written notes, family Bible, ledger prints, or other meaningful mementos you may want to use. They can be old or new materials—family history is not just old stuff, it's being created every day!
Prints or paper materials
Thin Fabrics: lace or scrap fabrics or thread
Collage Base: foam board, cardboard, or anything flat as a base to attach collage materials
Tools: Xacto knife or scissors
Modge Podge or other white adhesive
About Bobby C. Martin
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, and the Museum of the Great Plains in Lincoln, Nebraska. 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 work-shops and artist retreats at his studio and at various museums and art centers around the world.