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Martha Gelarden, MFA

Assistant Professor Visiting Artist

Department

  • Fine Arts
  • MFA Studio Art
  • Photography & Digital Arts

Education

  • MFA, BFA, Eastern Michigan University

Recent Exhibitions

  • Recent Work by Moore Faculty: Martha Gelarden and Joseph Leroux 
    Moore College Galleries at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts 2013
  • Faculty Triennial Exhibition – Practice and Process, The Galleries at Moore: Goldie Paley Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.
  • Intention: Nine Philadelphia Sculptors, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia PA, 2009
  • Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holzer Museum of Art, Helena MT, 2008
  • Faculty Exhibition, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA, 2007
  • More Big Questions about the Big Easy, International Conference on Art and Society, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006
  • Big Questions about the Big Easy, Generative Art 2005, University of Milan, Italy, 2005

Recent Activities

  • Participant in The Sketchbook Project 2012 which is a traveling library of artists' books. The project will be at the Painted Bride on August 23 and August 24 from 1-5PM. After the tour, the books become part of the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Art Library/Art House Co-op. She is also participating in this fall’s Faculty iPad Initiative Exhibition on the Philadelphia Wall in the Galleries at Moore.   

  • “Separated at Birth: Legacy in Limbo performance lecture and paper for the Sixth International Conference on Art and Society, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Berlin, Germany. http://artsinsociety.com/conference-2011/ abstract: Abstract: Separated at Birth (2011)

  •   “Separated at Birth a Secret Conversation” performance lecture/ paper presented at Generative Art XIII,  Politecnico University, Milan, Italy (2010) 13th Generative Art Conference

  •  “Parallel Tracks Converge through Collaboration” performance lecture with Adam Lazar  at Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies, 3rd International Conference sponsored by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, MIT, Cambridge, MA (May 2010) http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/ASAC2010/ProgramASAC10a.pdf Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies Conference

  •  “Legacy in Limbo: 2 artists harmonize through collaboration”. Visual Voices: Seeing Voices Symposium, Stedman Gallery/Rutgers-Camden University, presented slide talk about the process of learning to speak to another through the studio practice.  (April 2010)

  • Presented paper at the International Conference on the Arts in Society at the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, 2006
  • Tut and reliefs in the classroom for Summer Teachers Institute, Moore College of Art & Design, 2007
  • Minding the Gaps in the Undergraduate Studio Curriculum lecture at Symposium on Art and Society at Tiach School, New York University, 2007.
  • Martha Gelarden Legacy of Limbo

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