Martha Kearns

Adjunct Professor

Courses:

African Art
Modern Art
Global Perspectives in Art History to the Renaissance

Education:

M.A. in Education, Antioch Graduate School of Educations
B.A., Arcadia University
Post-Graduate Education, The Netherlands (Fulbright)

Biography:

Martha Kearns is an author, educator, and arts administrator. As an art historian she is the author of Kaethe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist , the definite English biography of the German graphic artist and sculptor, and “Elizabeth Catlett: The Spirit of Form,” Sculpture magazine, March 1999. Her first full-length drama received its world premiere in Moscow, Russia, in May 2003, and was also awarded First Prize, New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest, New York City, awarded October 2003.

She was Senior Professor, Education and the Humanities, at Antioch University, Philadelphia, and has also taught at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and University of the Arts. Since 1994 she has been teaching art history, drama, and literature at Chestnut Hill College, where she is also Faculty Moderator/Director of student drama productions. Since Fall 2003 she has been teaching art history at Moravian College.

As an arts administrator she is Co-Founder and Executive Director of FrankfordStyle, a community arts organization serving the inner-city community of Frankford, Philadelphia, through a multi-disciplinary Arts School. In 1999 FrankfordStyle and Frankford business Jack's Camera's received the prestigious Arts and Business Partnership Award given by the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia.

Collector's Statement:

“I purchased this work after completing a monograph on the artist, Kaethe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist . The book, with three printings (1976, 1977, 1991) remains the definitive English biography of the German graphic artist and sculptor. Kollwitz is considered one of the great graphic artists of the Twentieth Century, and certainly the greatest woman graphic artist. The work, Beim Degeln, “Whetting the Scythe,” 1905, etching and softground and a restrike, is part of Kollwitz's second graphic suite, Bauernkrieg , The Peasant War , 1907, seven works based on the 1525 serf revolt of southern Germany. I purchased this because I thought it a particularly beautiful and clear bite of this work.”