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Becky Brown (Margaret Rebekah Brown Martz, 1914-2011)
apprenticed in ceramics with her
husband, Karl Martz, beginning after their marriage in 1935. In
1949, she studied design with Alma Eikerman at Indiana
University. Prior to 1950, she often assisted Karl by making
small pots to sell to tourists, some slip-cast in molds, often
designed by Karl. Beginning in 1950, she made her own designs,
eventually favoring animal motifs in hand-built ceramic
sculpture. In the 1950's and 1960's, her work was exhibited in
the Biennial Indiana Ceramics Exhibitions at the John Herron Art
Museum in Indianapolis, and in the annual DePauw University
Ceramics Shows. Becky traveled widely to studio potteries and
museums throughout Europe, Mexico, and Japan. She worked as an
apprentice in the Daisei family pottery in
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Mashiko, Japan, in
1971-2. In 1973, 1978, and 1981, her work was included by
invitation in exhibits at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, at
Indiana Central University, Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame,
IN), and in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1970-1975, she was a Partner
in The Gallery (founded by Rosemary Fraser) in Bloomington,
Indiana, where her work was shown in two-person shows in 1978 and
1981. A solo exhibit was shown in 1979 at the Alliance Museum
Shop at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 1985-91, she was a
Docent at the Indiana University Museum of Art. Her poem "Korean
Vase" was published in The Studio Potter in 1998. In 2008,
several of her ceramics works are included in a permanent display
in the Midwest Museum of Art (Elkhart, IN).
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