Martha Savage
1010H Whalley Avenue
New Haven, CT 06515-1774
(203) 915-3788
studio: West River Arts
909 Whalley Avenue
New Haven, CT 06515
EDUCATION
Union Institute and University 2010
Project Zero Classroom, Cambridge, MA 2001
MFA, Vermont College of Norwich University 1992-1994
Alternate Route to Teacher Certification 1990
BS, Boston University 1978-1981
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute 1971-1973
Stanford University 1970-1971
Case-Western Reserve University 1969-1970
Certification: Art preK-12 (042)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1986- 2017 Art Teacher Area Cooperative Educational Services
Thomas Edison Middle School Meriden 2001- 2017
Art Teacher, Art Specialist, Whitney N., W., E. High Schools, Collaborative Alternative Magnet Middle School and High School, Arise High School, Village, and Mill Road Schools (museum visitation program)
Art Department Head, Betsy Ross Arts Magnet 1986-1999
Assistant Director, BRAMS Arts Camp
Committees: ACES Area Art Learning Council; ACES Professional Learning
1986- 2014
· Creative Arts Workshop Young People’s Department Head (2007- present) and Art Teacher, summer art program and classes. PACK art coordinator.
2006 volunteer- Chapel Haven museum trip.
Neighborhood Place, Yale Child Study Center
2004- present
· Art Coordinator for Parents and Communities for Kids @ CAW, a Wallace Foundation grant program collaboration with Neighborhood Music School
2003 & 2004
Coordinator, City-Wide Open Studios
2001
· Art Specialist. State of Connecticut Department of Children and
Families and Yale University Child and Adolescent Research and
Education Program, Summer Camp. Yale University- Department
of Psychiatry and the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder.
2000
Art Specialist. Audubon Arts Camp, 4-12 year-olds costumes, sets,
props, and puppets.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS, FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS
2013
Site Projects Presents:NIGHT RAINBOW | GLOBAL RAINBOW NEW HAVEN, a temporary light installation by Yvette Mattern Educational Guide for teachers, parents and students written by Elizabeth Antle-O’Donnell and Laura Clarke, Sara Sapire, Martha Savage
http://nightrainbownewhaven.com/?page_id=654
2010
“Landscape in a Lacquer Box” March, SchoolArts Magazine.
“In Search of Bulletin Board Ideas” March, SchoolArts Magazine.
2009
“Our Challenge with Discipline” April, SchoolArts Magazine
2008
“Toys R Art” January, School Arts Magazine
“One Size Does Not Fit All” February, School Arts Magazine
2007
Beariebella Bear & Friends, Adventures in Art, self-published
“DeForest Duck Visits the Museum,” Highlights- High Five Magazine
2006
“Please Take a Seat” December, SchoolArts Magazine web edition
2005
“Seeing is Believing” September. SchoolArts Magazine
2004
“Lets Talk” January, March and June. SchoolArts Magazine
2003
“ Mission- Not Impossible Mainstreaming an Arts and Ideas Teacher” April SchoolArts Magazine
PRESENTATIONS
· Connecticut Art Education Association Fall Conference, Workshop 1A: Art in Our Token Economy, Facilitator: Martha Savage, Thomas Edison Middle School, Meriden Level: Gr. 6-8, October 28 2015
· Connecticut Art Education Association Fall Conference, Workshop: Painting in Circles, 2014
· CT Art Docent Conference, Yale Center For British Art 1990
AWARDS
· Honorable mention SchoolArts Artist Trading Card Contest 2007
· Fiskars Scissors art project award
RECENT ART EXHIBITIONS
2017
· Annual Leonardo Challenge Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT
2013
· Wave Gallery Card Collection
· SideShow at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore MD since 2009
· Celebration of American Craft, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT 2010- 2012
· MakeSpace Bleak Winter art fair, Harrisburg, PA
· Annual Leonardo Challenge Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT
· Handful of Art, Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
2012
· Sideshow Tag Sale, American, Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, Creative Arts Faculty Show, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven. 2009- 2012
· 15th Annual Leonardo Challenge Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT
2008
· 14thh Annual Leonardo Challenge Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT
· City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
2007
· Cultural Passages: Identity Made Visible, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
· 13th Annual Leonardo Challenge Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT