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Delita Martin
Between Spirits and Sisters – Delita Martin – Biography
Between Spirits and Sisters
by Delita Martin
November 10, 2018 – February 2, 2019
artwork | artist’s talk | film screening | bio | statement | resume
Biography
Delita Martin is an artist currently based in Huffman, Texas. She received a BFA in drawing from Texas Southern University and an MFA in printmaking from Purdue University. Formerly a member of the Fine Arts faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Martin currently works as a full-time artist in her studio, Black Box Press.
Working from oral traditions, vintage and family photographs as a source of inspiration, Martin’s work explores the power of the narrative impulse. Her process of layering various printmaking, drawing, sewing collaging and painting techniques allow her to create portrait that fuse the real and the fantastic. In her work, she combines signs and symbols to create visual language. By fusing this visual language with oral storytelling, she offers other identities and other narratives for women of color.
Martin’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Most recently, Martin’s work was included in State of the Arts: Discovering American Art Now, an exhibition that includ
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Reparations: Some Weird and wonderful are Something remaining Owed
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Solo Exhibition featuring Wesley Clark
September 22 – Oct, 31, 2019
artist statement | curatorial acknowledgment | welcome Wesley Clark
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PD Dr. Frederik Schulze
Since 2023
Project leader “Colonial Rule on the Ground: The District Administration of Indigenous Regions in New Spain and Peru in the 18th Century”, DFG Research Unit 5415 “Local Xenocracy. Administration and Cultural Entanglement in Pre-Modernity”, University of Cologne, Germany
2022–2023
Deputy Chair for Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University, Germany
2021–2022
Researcher at the Department of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne
2017–2018
Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Knowledge, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
2013–2021
Assistant Professor in Latin American History at the University of Münster, Germany
2008–2013
Research Associate and Lecturer in Global and Latin American History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany