Education Centre College, B. A., 1992
Museum Exhibitions Rowan Oak, 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, 2020
(exhibiting The Book of Common Worship as a companion illustrated text)
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, 2023
Solo Exhibitions Playhouse on the Square, Memphis, TN
September 13 to November 3, 2019
November 7, 2014 to January 5, 2015
August 3 to September 16, 2012
November 1, 2011 to January 4, 2012
January 17 to February 28, 2010
April 28 to June 12, 2009
Germantown Performing Arts Center, Germantown, TN
April 1 to 29, 2015
Memphis Theological Seminary, Memphis, TN
March 2 to April 9, 2015
Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN
December 3 to 31, 2013
ANF Architects, Memphis, TN
November 2 to 29, 2012
Seven Sisters Gallery, Black Mountain, NC
December 3, 2010 to March 18, 2011
Katharine Butler Gallery, Sarasota, FL
November 18 to December 12, 2009
Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, TN
November 4 to 29, 2008
Ross Gallery, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN
August 13 to October 4, 2007
Dyersburg State Community College, Covington, TN
January 4 to August 11, 2005
The Grove Grill, Memphis, TN
Sponsored by David Lusk Gallery, 2000 and 2003
Theater Memphis, Memphis, TN
Sponsored by David Lusk Gallery, March 21 to April 6, 2003
Brinkley Plaza, Memphis, TN
Sponsored by David Lusk Gallery, April to June, 2001
Cecilia Lin Gallery, Memphis, TN
March 4 to May 1, 1999
Group Exhibitions Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, TN
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
NorDys Gallery, Birmingham, AL
November to January, 2004 & 2005
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis TN
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Illustrations M is for Memphis, Martha Kelly author/illustrator, 2024
Publications
Portal, Martha Kelly author/illustrator, 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
Book of Common Worship, illustrations, 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: Apocalyptic Hope for Today, 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 & 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
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