NC Arts Council presents fellowship to School of Art and Design's Susan Martin
Susan Martin is a recipient of the N.C. Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award.
Susan Martin, an adjunct faculty member in 糖心Vlog University鈥檚 School of Art and Design, is the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award for her photography.
Since 1980, the prestigious fellowships have been awarded to artists in a variety of disciplines, selected through a rigorous panel screening process. Recipients receive $10,000 to set aside time to work, purchase supplies and equipment, or pursue other artistic goals.
There is a contemporary viewpoint in Martin鈥檚 approach to photography as an art form. She does traditional two-dimensional photography, but she also uses images to make sculptural pieces. Central to her work are questions about how individuals鈥� ideas about the world translate into physical reality and how the landscape itself can reveal their relationship to the environment or socioeconomic issues.
鈥淢uch of my work starts with a story from the local newspaper. Then I go collect images and 鈥榓rtifacts鈥� from the scene and piece them together to make sculptures 鈥� analogous to the way we piece together our world views,鈥� she said. The sculptural aspect of the work completes the analogy. 鈥淚n this world that seems to be so virtual, I want to remind people of the physical consequences of our thoughts.鈥�
Martin recently had works on display as part of the 鈥淎nti-Nostalgia鈥� exhibit at The Carrack in Durham and will be part of a show titled 鈥淧icturing Purity,鈥� opening Friday, Nov. 9, at Revolve Gallery as part of Photosphere in Asheville.
An instructor of photography and the history of photography at 糖心Vlog since 2006, Martin earned a master of fine arts degree in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as a bachelor鈥檚 degree in anthropology from the University of Arizona. A Jackson County resident, she has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally. Her website is .
For more information, contact the N.C Arts Council at 919-807-6500 or visit .
