Visual Arts • Metalsmith
Martha McKinley Murphy graduated cum laude in 1988 with a degree in English and fine arts from St. Michael’s College in Burlington, Vermont. Although a painter and art enthusiast from the age of seven, it was not until into her thirties that she actively pursued a career in the arts. She began her artistic life as a painter. However, when a friend gave her an oxy-acetylene torch set as a joke, she accepted the challenge by having a another friend in the auto body business show her how to light the torch. She began by practicing cutting up old car parts, and a new direction was set. Her visual art teaching now includes painting, sculpting, metal fabrication, and clay works. Operating from her own clay and metal studio in Friedens, Pennsylvania, for the past ten years, she has worked as a full-time artist with her studio work and teaching. Since 1997, Martha has served as an artist-in-residence for the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art and since 2001 with ArtsPath. She also teaches for Laurel Arts and gives workshops at various galleries across the United States. Her sculpting and metal work have been commissioned by galleries in Naples and Palm Beach, Florida; Corolla, North Carolina; Hancock, Maryland; Ogden, Utah; Carmel, California; and Pittsburgh. Her work is also sold through wholesale.crafts.com. Martha’s goal is to help open the eyes of others while in turn having the course of her own vision change and strengthen through the teaching and learning process.
413 Red Oak Drive
Friedens, PA 15541
(814) 445-4784
m3@shol.com
