Join the curator of Gossip: Between Us, Victoria Miles, as we dive into the hot goss of our region’s art, art history and culture with local and well renowned art historians and artists.
This quarterly conversation series will run through the duration of the exhibition.
February’s conversation will feature art historian, curator, and researcher, David F. Martin.
About David F. Martin
David F. Martin is a curator, writer, and historian who has documented the art history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest since 1986. He is the leading authority on early Washington State art and artists. Many of the artists he has chosen to focus on are women, Asian Diasporic artists active in the Northwest, LGBTQ+ and other minorities who had established national and international reputations during the period 1880-1970.
Since 2015 he has curated over fifty original exhibitions of Northwest regional art for Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, Washington. Full listing on cascadiaartmuseum.org, past exhibitions.
He received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in 2017 and received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild.
He has collaborated with the Tacoma Art Museum on three exhibitions and publications.
Since 1995, Martin has authored or co-authored, numerous publications documenting the regional artists of Washington State and contributes essays and catalogue entries for national and international publications on painting, printmaking and photography.
He is former Program Director for the American Art Council at the Seattle Art Museum and served on the board of the Governor’s Mansion Foundation’s art committee. For three years he served as the regional President of the Northwest Chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Martin is an Honorary Member of Women Painters of Washington, the only man to have received this honor.
He is currently writing a two-volume history of art in Washington state from 1880-1962. The first volume will be released in January, 2027.
