Martha Bloom, Milk Weed, Flowers Mixed Media Collage Monotype Floral Painting, 1985

Mixed Media collage Assemblage painting and or monoprint or monotype on BFK Rives French art paper. It depicts a wild profusion of bold colored flowers
Education
1976 Stanley Hayter Atelier 17 Workshop, Paris, France
1975 Hugh Stoneman Workshop, London, England
1974-85 Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NYC
1972-74 Certificate of Completion in Fine Arts Graphics, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
1971-72 The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
1970-71 Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT
it was the League where Martha Bloom found her artistic home. She received her Certificate of Completion in Fine Arts Graphics, and studied sculpture, drawing, and painting. Ms. Bloom received the McDowell Traveling Scholarship and served on the Board of Control for three years as a graphics representative.
She studied with many living legends: drawing with Robert Beverly Hale; painting with Isaac Soyer, Sidney Dickinson, and Bruce Dorfman; sculpture with José de Creeft and Sidney Simon; printmaking with Michael Ponce de Leon and Seong Moy; and more. Ms. Bloom taught a children’s class at the League from 1986 until last year when she began teaching an all-ages, all-media Saturday class. She also teaches all ages at the National Academy School and Silvermine School of Art in Connecticut, along with workshops, outreach, and museum programs. Ms. Bloom’s intuitive and distinctive style of artmaking integrates her training in many media. She has a natural affinity for found collections and an imaginative take on universal issues.
Her work has been exhibited widely and is represented in many private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy, Columbia Museum, Delaware Art Museum, and the Library of Congress.

Selected Exhibitions and Museum Collections
1997 Graphic Arts Center International Miniature Print Competition, Purchase Award, Norwalk, CT Photography Exhibition Benefit “A moment in Connecticut,” Southport, CT
1996 Midtown Payson Gallery, NYC
1995 State of CT Department of Environmental Protection “Rivers of CT” Photography Competition
1991 Metropolitan Museum Collection Book Arts Gallery, NYC
1986 -Annual Instructors Exhibitions Arts Students League of NY Sylvan Cole Gallery, NYC
1986 Columbia Museum Collection, SC McNay Museum, TX
1985 The College Board Collection of Prints by American Artists, NYC
1980 – 86 Associated American Artists, NYC
1980 Marilyn Peal Gallery, NYC International Miniature Print Competition, Korea
1974 Audubon Society, National Academy Galleries, NYC Woodstock Artists Association
1973 Pioneer Moss, NYC

Present Positions
2000-present National Academy School
1997-99 Art Faculty, Carriage Barn Arts Center, CT
1992-present Faculty, Silvermine School of Art, CT
1986-present Instructor, Art Students League of NY

Listings
Who’s Who in American Art
Who’s Who in the East
Who’s Who in the Women of the World