Bobby C. Martin is an artist/educator/facilitator deeply influenced by his Native American heritage. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) tribe, Martin works out of his 7 Springs Studio near West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma and creates artwork that is exhibited and collected internationally. He has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including a one-person exhibition entitled “But You Don’t Look Indian…” Martin also participated in “Altars of Reconciiliation”, a three-person show featuring Martin, Erin Shaw (Chickasaw) and Tony Tiger (Sac & Fox/Muscogee/Seminole) that focused on the experiences of the artists as Native Americans and as Christians. Martin is also a curator. He co-curated, with Robert Peters of Belfast, Northern Ireland, a works on paper group show entitled “Borders & Boundaries: The Blurred Edges of Decolonisation.” Martin also co-curated, with Tony Tiger, “Return from Exile: Contemporary Southeastern Indian Art”, a national touring exhibition which had a three year, ten venue run across the southeastern United States. Martin’s work is in numerous museum collections, including the Philbrook Museum and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa Oklahoma, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, the Museum of the Great Plains in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Sam Noble Museum in Norman, Oklahoma. Martin holds a Professor of Visual Arts position at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and he frequently leads printmaking workshops and artist retreats at his studio and at various museums and art centers around the world.