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Education                                        Centre College, B. A., 1992


Museum Exhibitions               Rowan Oak Museum, Oxford MS
                                                                 Faulkner's Trees, solo block print exhibition, 2024

                                                                 Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS
                                                                 Hints of Gladness: the block prints of Martha Kelly, 2022

                                                                 Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
                                                                 The Saint John's Bible, group exhibition, 2020
                                                                
                                                                 Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS

                                                                 Water, Water, group exhibition, 2019

                                                                 Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
                                                                 Retrospective, group exhibition, 2016


                                                                 Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
                                                                 My Own Places, solo exhibition, 2015

Public Art                                  Designs for three granite columbaria, Elmwood Historic Cemetery, Memphis, TN, 2023


Solo Exhibitions                         Playhouse on the Square, Memphis, TN, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2019
                                                                 Germantown Performing Arts Center, Germantown, TN, 2015
                                                                 Memphis Theological Seminary, Memphis, TN, 2015
                                                                 Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN, 2013
                                                                 ANF Architects, Memphis, TN, 2012                                                            
                                                                 Seven Sisters Gallery, Black Mountain, NC, 2011                                                             
                                                                 Katharine Butler Gallery, Sarasota, FL, 2009
                                                                 Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, TN, 2008
                                                                 Ross Gallery, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN, 2007                                            
                                                                 Dyersburg State Community College, Covington, TN, 2005
                                                                 The Grove Grill, Memphis, TN, sponsored by David Lusk Gallery, 2000, 2003
                                                                 Theater Memphis, Memphis, TN, sponsored by David Lusk Gallery, 2003 
                                                                 Cecilia Lin Gallery, Memphis, TN, 1999
                                                                  
Group Exhibitions                    Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, TN, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
                                                                NorDys Gallery, Birmingham, AL, 2005
                                                                David Lusk Gallery, Memphis TN, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004                                                               
                                                               
Illustrations/                               Cover and illustrations for Book People, Memphis Magazine, 2025
Publications                                
                                                              
Cover art for They Say It Might Rain, Evely Cusack & Seamus Walsh, Gill Books, Ireland, 2025
                                                              
                                                              
Cover art for A Troubling of Goldfish, Corey Mesler, Big Table Publishing Company, 2025

                                                               M is for Memphis, Martha Kelly author/illustrator, 2024

                                                               Portal, 
Martha Kelly author/illustrator, 2024

                                                               Cover art for Vitamins for Ygdrasil and Other Poems, Corey Mesler, WordTech Editions, 2024    
                                                               Cover art for The Mourner's Bestiary, Eiren Caffall, Row House Publishing, 2024                                                               
                                                               Memoir of a House (expanded into a book), Martha Kelly author/illustrator, 2024
                                                                  

​                                                               "Memoir of a House," graphic essay, Oxford American, 2023                               

                                                               "A Story of the Greensward," graphic essay, Memphis Magazine, 2021

                                                               P is for Possum, Martha Kelly author/illustrator, 2020

                                                               Block print illustrations for Book of Common Worship, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A),

                                                               Westminster John Knox Press, 2018
                                                               
                                                               A Bad Woman
by James M. Cain, Chalk Line Books, 2015

                                                               Murder at the Bijou by Jim Thompson, Chalk Line Books, 2015

                                                               The Killing by Lionel White, illustrations, Chalk Line Books, 2014

                                                               The Secret Squad by David Goodis, illustrations, Chalk Line Books, 2014

                                                               Sharecropper Hell by Jim Thompson, illustrations, Chalk Line Books, 2014

                                                               Concierge Magazine, cover and illustrations, 2014 & 2015

                                                               Call To Worship magazine, illustrations, four issues, 2013

                                                               Memphis Magazine City Guide, illustrations, 2012 & 2013

                                                              "Tandem for Two," illustrations, Memphis Parent, April 2012

                                                               Journeys Through Revelation, illustrations, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 2010
                                                              
Professional                            Featured author at the Ruby Bridges Reading Festival
Engagements                            The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN, May 17, 2025

                                                               Museum lecture, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
                                                               "Making an Art Life," April 26, 2023

                                                               Museum lecture, Walter Anderson Museum of Art
                                                               "Block prints and sketchbooks," March 19, 2022

                                                                Museum lecture, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN

                                                                "Illuminated/Illustrated Texts," December 30, 2020
                                                                
                                                                Artist-in-residence,
Memphis Theological Seminary
                                                      2015-2016 and 2016-1017
                                                                
                                                                Lecture, Memphis Theological Seminary
                                                                "Art, the Female Image, and Gender Roles in the Church,"
                                                                March 17, 2015

                                                                Museum lecture, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
                                                                "My Own Places," November 11, 2019


                                                               Artist-in-residence, 2009-2012
                                                               Idlewild Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN

                                                               Artist-in-residence, Bergama Müzesi
                                                               Bergama, Turkey, September 2010

                                                               Museum lecture, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
                                                               "Plein Air Painting Then and Now," December 3, 2008


Press                                                  "Memphabetical," author/illustrator profile in Memphis Magazine, 2025
                                                                WMC tv interview, 2025
                                                                news article about Elmwood Cemetery public art project, Memphis Flyer, 2023
                                                                WKNO fm 91.1, radio interviews, 2007 and yearly from 2011 to 2024                   
                                                                Memphis on the Mark webcast, 2019

                                                                Tennessee Crossroads, PBS, March 2014

                                                                The Commercial Appeal, February 2012, Memphis, TN
                                                                Fix Magazine, September 2011, Memphis, TN
                                                                Cine 5 television, September 2010, Bergama, Turkey
                                                                Kalambaka 87.6, radio interview, April 2005, Kalambaka, Greece


Collections                                    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
                                                               Rowan Oak Museum, Oxford, MS
                                                               WKNO FM, Memphis, TN

                                                               Bergama Müzesi, Bergama, Turkey
                                                               ANF Architechts, Memphis, TN
                                                               The Williams Company, Memphis, TN
                                                               Pfizer Corporation, Memphis, TN
                                                               SunTrust, Memphis, TN
                                                               Evans & Petree Attorneys, Memphis, TN
                                                               Centre College, Danville, Kentucky









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