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kathryn e. martin-meurer

  • Teaching Faculty III, Sculpture
  • Teaching Faculty III, First Year Program
  • Outreach Coordinator, Art & Design
  • Living Learning Community Coordinator, Art & Design

Education

  • MFA, Intermedia, UW–Milwaukee, 2007
  • MA, Intermedia, UW-Milwaukee, 2005
  • BFA, Sculpture, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, 2001

Biography

Milwaukee artist kathryn e. martin explores everyday objects, spaces, and histories. She works with chosen forms in her studio, taking them apart to be repeated and reassembled in new, meaningful ways. Through this process, she interprets potential meaning while repeating the process to create new forms and narratives. These reassembled forms, when placed in a site-specific environment, create immersive sculptural landscapes. martin believes the idea should guide the choice of materials and shows this belief through her varied use of media.

martin has exhibited her work in solo and group shows across the U.S., including the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Kohler Art Center, and Aqua Art Miami. She has also shown her work at the Northern Arizona University Art Museum and the Pasadena Contemporary Gallery. In her home state of Wisconsin, she has received several public and private art commissions.
You can find public works by kathryn e. martin in several places around Milwaukee, such as along the Hank Aaron Trail, at the Milwaukee Public Library's North Avenue site, and in The Baird Center. In Madison, WI, they erected her work on the University of Wisconsin - Madison's campus, in front of Chadborne Hall.

She held an artist residency at Gallery 224 in Port Washington, WI and received a C.D. Besadny Conservation Grant from the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin among other honors.

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Recent & Selected Work

Nearly black room containing a large pile of rocks with a yellow shovel in the top
A pile of approximately 40,000 cast plaster rocks with a shovel in it
Interior of a modern industrial building with many orange bird sculptures hanging from the ceiling
3Form CNC cut swallows
Wood palette on a cement floor covered in gold leaf
Gold Leafed Found Palette
Close up of a corner of wood palette covered in gold leaf
Gold Leafed Found Palette
Room with two red chairs on either side of a round coffee table, ten rectangle boxes vertically spell different versions of Milwaukee's names
Framed, mixed media layers of hand beaded quilts, CNC cut Resin and Milwaukee names
Milwaukee Influencers, VAR Gallery, kathryn e. martin
aLot, Watershed, Interventions with Water, kathryn e. martin

Awards

  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Academic Staff Outstanding Teacher Award
  • UWM Alumni Employee Award: Community University
  • We Make a Difference Award
  • Greater Milwaukee Foundation Mary L. Nohl Fund Suitcase Export Fund

Artistic Exhibitions & Artwork

  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Transformation, 2024, 3Form Varia Ecoresin, 18' L x 4" W x 10' H, WE Energies Founcation Art Collection, the Baird Center, Milwaukee, WI, https://wcd.org/meet-baird-center-artist-kathryn-martin/
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Circle, Squares, Triangles – 2025, 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Exhibizone Exhibitions, https://www.exhibizone.com/p/circlessquarestriangles2024.html?TP=catalogue
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Untitled (stripes), 2024 Iteration Reiteration, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC Artservancy,Gallery 224, Port Washington WI, https://www.touchstonegallery.com/exhibits-all/2024/8/1/iteration-reiteration
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Weekly Walks (An Artservancy Project), Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI, https://awealthofnature.org/kathryn-e-martin-artist-in-residence-at-kratzsch-conservancy/
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Swallows in Flight, 2020, 3Form Varia Ecoresin, Each swallows measures 18" L, GRaEF Company Headquarters, Milwaukee, WI
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Untitled (Growth), 2019, University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. 10 Wisconsin Sculptors: Not Just a Boy’s Club, 2019, Union Art Gallery, UWM, Milwaukee, WI
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Rock, Paper, Binder Clips: kathryn martin assembles, April 2017, NAU Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ, https://azdailysun.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/nau-exhibit-makes-everyday-objects-sing/article_9be09f12-ee07-5aad-b251-97878c664491.html
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Taking Flight, 2017, Paper Airplanes, Acuity Insurance, Sheboygan, WI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaTsz-W_tc
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Attempts at Perfection, 2016, Tipton Gallery Johnson City, TN
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Topos, Reclaimed wood, 2014, City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Library, East Side Branch, Milwaukee, WI, https://www.wuwm.com/podcast/lake-effect-segments/2014-11-22/milwaukees-new-east-library-honors-its-past-while-folding-in-sustainability
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. Ellipsoid, 2010, Stainless Steel, Chadbourne Hall, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI
  • Martin-Meurer, Kathryn E. A Place to Sit, 2008, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Ironwood, City of Milwaukee, Hank Aaron State Trail, Milwaukee, WI, https://www.hankaaronstatetrail.org/art-on-the-trail