Art teacher and Artist
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Art teacher and Artist

I am a dedicated artist and art teacher.

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MARTHA RICHLER
59 Christchurch Hill, Flat 10, London NW3 1JJ
7 Hill Crest Avenue, Toronto M4X 1W1

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Tel. 020 7317 8474
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Short Bio: Art Teacher and Professional Artist
Martha Richler has taught art at all levels, from secondary school to college level. She also worked as a Lecturer at National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and later wrote the official guide to the museum, A World of Art (1996). In the same year, she became a newspaper cartoonist, and in recent years, the first woman in the UK to draw daily editorial cartoons for a national paper. She has now come full circle and devotes most of her time to teaching.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND/TEACHING:
1996-Present: Teaching art across London, for the City of London, JW3, Cass Art, and the Big Draw: all ages.
2010-Present: Associate, The Big Draw, UK�s leading charity promoting art and drawing to secondary school children and young adults across the country. Led workshops at exciting venues including schools all over London. Regular guest artist at the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood and at secondary schools across London.
2018-19: Artist-in-Residence, Jewish Museum, London.
2011-12: Artist-in-Residence, St John�s Primary School, Bethnal Green. Teaching art weekly to children ages 8-12.
1996: Author of A World of Art: The History of Art as told through the Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington (Scala Books, , 1996)
1990-96: Lecturer, Education Department, National Gallery of Art, Washington Lectures were as large as 400 adults and as intimate as 8-10 adults. I also helped train adult docent volunteers during this time. Guest lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
1985-1990: Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, for outstanding postgraduate scholars with a passion and talent for teaching.
1987-89: Postgraduate work in art history at Johns Hopkins University, MPhil; taught at Johns Hopkins University (supervisor, Professor Michael Fried).
1985-87: Mellon Fellow. MA, Columbia University, New York; taught at Hunter College, CUNY (supervisor, Professor Jane Roos)
1985-87: Gallery Assistant, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1985: Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Harvard University, BA; 1987, MA Columbia University, NY, art history.

PROFESSIONAL ARTIST:
1996-present: professional cartoonist and artist
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2015-17: Exhibitions of Paintings in Winchcombe and in London.
2015-Present: Editorial Cartoonist for the Jewish Quarterly and the Jewish Chronicle
2014-17: my graphic novel called Runaway, about a young woman who becomes homeless in London (currently in final draft form), to be published by Canadian publisher Madison Press, pub date Winter 2019.
2008-2015: Chief political cartoonist for PoliticalB------------, the UK�s leading non-partisan blog assessing political polls and futures, edited by former BBC political editor Mike Smithson
2008-2011: Cartoonist for The Week online
2003 � 2008: Daily Editorial Cartoonist, on up-to-the-minute news events, for London�s Evening Standard
2001 � 2003: Daily pocket news cartoon on page 2 of Canada�s Globe and Mail
1996-1998: Weekly comic strip called �Lucky� for London�s Daily Express
Books illustrated include Being A Girl, Kim Cattrall and My Life with George, Judith Summers

PROFESSIONAL HONOURS & EXHIBITIONS:
2011: Solo exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London, �City Blues: Cartoons on the Banking Crisis and Recession�, curated by Sonia Solicari
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/city-blues-cartoons-by-marf-guildhall-art-gallery-london-2268001.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8426278/Cartoon-tales-of-the-recession-at-Guildhall.html
2010: Group exhibition, St Paul�s Cathedral, London
Summer 2006: appointed Judge of the Victoria & Albert Museum�s annual National Illustration Awards. Other judges in 2006 included Sir Peter Blake, the Pop artist, and the museum�s director, Mark Jones
Spring 2006: Fifty of my Evening Standard original cartoons and three drawings are acquired by the Victoria & Albert�s permanent collection
Public Collections: V&A, The Saatchi Gallery
Private Collections: Kim Cattrall, Charles Saatchi, Nigella Lawson, Barbara Broccoli, Elton John, the sculptor Allen Jones, RA, David and Victoria Beckham

REFERENCES:
Nigel Horne, former editor of Saturday Telegraph Magazine and The Week: N------------
Sonia Solicari, Director of the Geffrye Museum, London: SS------------