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Escape this story A Brand New Day My Imagination, My Shield Traveling with Calvino Sub-Saharan Modernist (Remembering the ANC Women's March) Unable to separate you from the water (the ship's piano) This day is coming through my door Polar Bear Cairo Maputo, Moçambique The unfinished plan for Algiers The Boy and the Wave Points of Entry Commute Avalon to Plymouth Garden for the Common We sleep in a new boat The Girl and the Field Togiak Mirror View East and South walls Scale Escape from Cape Town (Right side of spread) Escape from Cape Town/ Entering Maputo (Left side of spread) Siding Unpacked Center Two One The Canoe and the Whale (I) The Canoe and the Whale (II) The Miners' March Transition Trees (II) Dog-eared Navigation Foreclosed Cover page Elevation (Miss America) Elevation (Miss America): Backside Plan (Kommen sie essen jezt) City map I City map II Resolution Abe Lincoln Portfolio It's our second winter here - layout It's our second winter here - spread two It's our second winter here - spread five Swallowed by the Sound: front view Accordian view Fire Open page view we are rocking talking around the music Mural in progress Sense of place Self Portrait Years of paint Beginning the drawing Finished! Arc of Anchorage collaborative print exchange Peace Mural in Moseushi, Hokkaido, Japan Peace Mural in Moseushi, Hokkaido, Japan Peace Mural in Moseushi, Hokkaido, Japan
Kelda Martensen maintains a studio practice focused in the paper, book and print arts and serves as an arts educator in the greater Seattle, Washington community. She is currently an artist mentor in the schools for Arts-Impact, a program through the Puget Sound Educational Service District, which brings professional artists into the public schools. She also teaches youth and adult studio art classes at Pratt Fine Arts, Moshier, and Sev Shoon Art Centers along with teaching printmaking and book arts for the Continuing Education programs at North and South Seattle Community Colleges. She received her MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis.