Martha L. Carothers
Professor
Department of Art
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-0387
martha@udel.edu
Education
2001 Alumni Achievement Award, Penn State University, School of Visual Arts
1980 Master of Fine Arts, Penn State University, School of Visual Arts
Thesis: The Design and Production of Children's Novelty Books
1977 Bachelor of Art, Penn State University, School of Visual Arts
Teaching & Administrative Experience
2002-2009 Associate Director - Office of Undergraduate Studies
Faculty Director, Center for Teaching Effectiveness
& General Education Initiatives
University of Delaware
2001-2002 Associate Dean, Arts & Humanities, College of Arts & Science
University of Delaware
1993-2001 Chair, Department of Art
University of Delaware
1993-present Professor, Department of Art
University of Delaware
1993-1992 Interim Chair, Department of Art
University of Delaware
1993-1986 Associate Professor, Department of Art
University of Delaware
1986-1981 Assistant Professor, Department of Art
University of Delaware
1981-80 Instructor, Graphic Design, School of Visual Arts
Pennsylvania State University
1978-1980 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graphic Design, School of Visual Arts
Pennsylvania State University
2010 2009 Program Director First Year Experience Study Abroad
2008 2006 University of Delaware
2005 2002 Six programs to Australia and New Zealand
Presentations: International Juried
2009 Study Abroad in the Pages of a Book
International Conference on the Book, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 Reading Should Be An Open Ended Experience
International Conference on the Book, Madrid, Spain
2004 Types of Reading and Reading Types
International Conference on the Book, Beijing, China
2001 The Common Man’s Book of the Future, Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading & Publishing, Williamsburg, VA
1997 Messages Printed in Capital Letters: Artist Books and Visual Essays
Conference on Visual Poetry, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Presentations: International Invitational
2010 Artist Books Are Not Books About Art, U of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Presentations: National Invitational
1998 Reading Type / Reading Text, Hot Type in a Cold World
Silver Buckle Press Symposium, U of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Guilty of All Three: Beaten, Pressed, and Bound,
Mid-America College Art Association, Lexington, KY
1997 Process and Meaning in Artists’ Books, Book For{u}ms
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Text, Type, and Image
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Artists’ Books in the Context of Children’s Books
Iowa State University, Ames, IO
Three Categories of Book Arts
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1994 Multi-Page Design, Idaho Center for the Book/Hemingway Center
Boise State University, Boise, ID
1991 Juxtaposition of Visual and Verbal in Book Arts
Cooper Union, New York, NY
Presentations: National Juried
2007 A First Year Model for Study Abroad
National Resource Center for the First Year Experience, Dallas, TX
2004 Study Abroad: Academic Arcadia or Just Another Grand Tour?
College Art Association, Seattle, WA
2004 Growing Pains and Growing Gains
National Resource Center for the First Year Experience, Dallas, TX
1999 Bookmaking: Same Components, Different Intent, Traffic on the Fine Lines of
Graphic Design, College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Reading in Capital Letters, College Art Association, Boston, MA
1995 Everything Old Is New Again: The Letterpress Book
American Institute of Graphic Arts, Seattle, WA
1991 Expanding the Book Arts with Use of Graphic Arts Technology
College Art Association, Washington, DC
1988 Children’s Book Design, Word & Image, U of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Book Chapters - contributor
2000 A Book of The Book, “Novelty Books: Accent of Images and Words”
Granary Books, New York, NY
Journals - contributor
1999 Chain, Issue 6: “Letters”
University of Hawaii & Ursinus College, Honolulu, HI
Solo Exhibitions
1996 Design of the Page, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
1995 Page After Page, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
1993 Concept & Image: The Book, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
International Invitational Exhibitions
2006 Book Structures, Gallery Terra, Kyoto Institute Technology, Kyoto, Japan
2006 Book Structures, Joshibi Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Exhibition Archive, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
1997 One of a Kind: Artists Books, US InfoServices, Near East and S America
1992 Book Arts in the USA, ECT Gallery, South America and Africa
1989 Americans in Print, Made in USA, Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz, Germany
International Book Design, NewGewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany
1987 A Surprise for Our Readers, King Stephen Museum, Hungary
Artist’s Books - USA, American Cultural Center, India
1986 Book Art Expo: Book-Arts, Graf Haufen, Berlin, Germany
National Invitational Exhibitions
2000 Brooklyn Pops Up!, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
Biennial 2000 Artists’ Books, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999 Book As Art XI, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1998 The Next Word, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
1993 Artists' Books & Art About Books, Pratt Manhattan, New York, NY
1990 Book Arts in the USA, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
1989 Intimate Typography, MJS Books & Graphics, New York, NY
Alphabets, Ted Cronin Gallery, New York, NY
Paper the Moon, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1988 Eccentric Books, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT
The Altered Page, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
1987 Surprise! Surprise! Pop-up and Moveable Books, Cooper-Hewitt Museum
New York, NY
1985 Contemporary Book Arts, Hand In Hand Galleries, New York, NY
1984 Pop Up, Lincoln Center & Children’s Museum Manhattan, New York, NY
1983 One Cubic Foot, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Terminal New York - Artists’ Library, Brooklyn Army Terminal, NYC
National Juried Exhibitions
2000 What Is Reading? Pacific & San Francisco Center for Book, San Fran, CA
Millennial Biennial 2000, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1999 Shape-Shifting: Transformations in the Art of the Book, U of Wyoming
1991 Art of the Contemporary Book: New Works, Ohio State, Columbus, OH
1989 15th Anniversary Center for Books Arts, Cooper Union, New York, NY
Collections
2008 Rare Book and Book Arts Collection, University of Washington Libraries
Seattle, WA
2008 Special Collections, University of Delaware Morris Library
Newark, DE
1996 Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA
University of Iowa, Library Collections, Iowa City, IO
Smith College, Library Collections, Northampton, MA
1996,95,86 Yale University, Library Collections, New Haven, CT
1993,88,85 Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL
1993,87 Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Design Library, New York, NY
1991 New York Historical Society, Rare Books Library, New York, NY
UCLA Research Library, Special Collections, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Museum of Modern Art, Artists’ Book Collection, New York, NY
Library of Congress, Rare Book/Special Collections, Washington, DC