David Martin (43)

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David F. Martin is an arts researcher, writer, curator and historian who has documented the art history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest since 1986 as well as Western New York State since 1981. He is the leading authority on early Washington State art and artist's. Many of the artists he has chosen to focus on are women, Japanese and Chinese Americans, Gay & Lesbian and other minorities who had established national and international reputations during the period 1890-1960.

Since 2015: Curator for Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, Washington.

He is former Program Director for the American Art Council at the Seattle Art Museum. For three years he served as regional President of the Northwest Chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. He is the author of several award-winning books and catalogues and contributes essays and catalogue entries for national and international publications on painting, printmaking and photography.

David is an Honorary Member of Women Painters of Washington, the only man to have received this honor. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts, May, 2017.