1. KELDA MARTENSEN
415 SW 139th Street Burien, Washington / (503) 516.7978 / kelda.martensen@gmail.com / www.keldamartensen.com
Education
2009 MFA in Visual Art (honors) Named Class Marshal
Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
2008 Sommerakadamie, Berlin, Germany (Course in contemporary art with studio visits including Olafur
Eliasson & Franz Akermann) Hosted by Kulturprojekte-Berlin and Washington University in St. Louis
2007 Advanced Printmaking at University of Alaska, Anchorage
2005 Encaustic painting at Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, Oregon
2002 BA in Studio Art (honors) Willamette University, Salem, Oregon,
University of Ireland - Galway, Ireland (2000)
University of Natal – Durban, Republic of South Africa (2001)
Selected exhibition record
2011 Pressing Destiny: Washington University Printmakers Move West! Subterranean Books, St. Louis, Missouri
Chido Johnson’s Let’s talk about Love Baby, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri
Seven: a collection of prints and works on paper, Bellevue College Gallery Space, Bellevue, Washington
2010 Stephanie Barenz, Kelda Martensen, Jenie Gao, Gallery 2622, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (three-person show)
Kelda Martensen: Something is Shifting, Pratt Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo show)
Featured Artists - September, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Documented Journeys, Burien Press, Burien, Washington (three-person show)
These Numbers Have Faces, Uncommon Ground, Chicago, Illinois (four-person show)
Regarding Place, St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Page Turner: Contemporary Artist Books, Burien Art Gallery, Burien, Washington
Kelda Martensen & Stephanie Barenz, Caggio, Milwaukie, Wisconsin (collaborative two person show)
2009 On the Cutting Edge: West Coast Artists Using Collage and Assemblage, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon
Pulled, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Women Printmakers, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri
Kelda Martensen: Works on Paper, University of Missouri Gallery, Columbia, Missouri (solo show)
I’ll be your closest neighbor: ruminations on jazz and travel, The Chapel, St. Louis, Missouri (two-person show)
5th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2009 (International competition), Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius,
Lithuania with traveling exhibitions to the Leipzig Book Fair, Leipzig, Germany; Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg,
Denmark.
Runneth Over, CBC Satellite Space, St. Louis, Missouri
Flat Files, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
BookEnds: The Book as Art (national competition), Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Art, Fact, Artifact: The Book in Time and Place (one of three chosen from national competition),
University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, Iowa
Triennial National Collegiate Handmade Paper Exhibition (national competition), Rutgers University, New Jersey
2008 Parabola, Steinberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Fill in the ___, Kulturprojekte-Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2007 From Wood to Paper, Red Delicious Press, Aurora, Colorado
Professional print portfolios (national invitational print exchanges)
2010 Pressing Destiny: Printmakers Move West! (co-curated with Valerie Wallace, Portland State Unviersity) Participants
include Claire Cowie, Leo Berk, Yoshi Kitai, James Thompson, Cassandra Simon
2009 Lincoln (curated by Valerie Wallace, Portland State University) Shown in Chicago, Illinois and Portland, Oregon
2008 An Eater’s Manifesto in honor of Michael Pollan (curated by Ken Botnick and Jana Harper, Washington University)

2. Collections
Special Collections, Washington University in St. Louis
Bokartas, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Current teaching positions
Artist-in-Residence, School of the Arts, Tacoma, Washington
Artist Mentor, Arts-Impact, Puget Sound Educational Service District, Renton, Washington
Adjunct Professional (Printmaking, Drawing & Painting, Book Arts), Pratt Fine Art Center, South Seattle Community
College, Sev Shoon Art Center, Moshier Art Center, Seattle, Washington
Adjunct Faculty, Central Washington University – Pierce County, Art in Education, Lakewood, Washington
Past teaching and professional experience
2010 Teaching Artist, Community Mural Project, City of Tacoma, Washington
2009 Visiting lecturer, Writing for Artists, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
Printer’s Assistant, Island Press, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Recognition, Construction + the Found (2D/3D mixed media)
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Guerilla Printmaking, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Critical Frameworks in the Visual Arts (Art Appreciation), served as head GTA within
team of teaching assistants, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
2007 Studio Manager, printmaking, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska
Visiting Professor, painting, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska
2006 – 2007 Teacher (long term substitute), Printmaking, Studio Art, Yearbook, Service High School, Anchorage, Alaska
Publications
Mise, Brandon. Adventures in Letterpress. New York: Mark Batty Publisher, 2010. Print. Photo published.
Otten, Liam. "Political Prints." Sam Fox School News. Washington University in St. Louis, 10 Dec. 2009.
Web. 10 Sept. 2010. <http://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/news/2857>.
SuperArrow 1.1 (2009). SuperArrow. Amanda Goldblatt, Ed., 30 Oct. 2009. Web. <www.superarrow.org> photo
published.
Scannell, Aine, “Recent Discoveries: Candace Nicol and Kelda Martensen,” [Weblog entry.] Tradigital Printmaking.
23 January 2009. (http://tradigitalprintmaking.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html) photo published.
Dawnell Smith, “Art Making for Change,” Anchorage Daily News, photo published, May 18, 2007
Monica Bradbury, “Waves of Thought,” Anchorage Press, photo published, March 15, 2007
Dawnell Smith, “Defining Spaces,” Anchorage Daily News, December 11, 2005
Selected awards, grants and residencies
2011 Cité Internationale des Arts, International Artist Residency, Paris, France
2010 Larry Sommers Art Fellowship Merit Award, Seattle Print Arts, Seattle, Washington
Accepted into the Washington State Registry of Highly Qualified Teaching Artists
2009 3rd Place Award, On the Cutting Edge: West Coast Artists using Collage, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon
Association of Women Faculty Graduate Student Award, “to recognize women students in their second year of
graduate study or beyond who demonstrate scholarly excellence and leadership potential.” Washington University in
St. Louis, Missouri
Outstanding Student Book Award, Graduate Finalist, College Book Art Association, Tempe, Arizona
2008 Sommerakademie, Kulturprojekte, Berlin, Germany
Gephardt Institute of Public Service Summer Stipend Recipient, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Illustrated Book Award, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Bell Cramer Award in Printmaking, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri