Locations of Martz Pottery Studios & Residences
Martz Pottery Studios were at the following locations.
Magenta numbers refer to the maps.
Brown County, Indiana:
- 1
1935: "Chewink" Cabin
- 2
1936-7: "Batchfield" Cabin
Nashville, Indiana (in Brown County):
- 3
1938-42: Pink House
- 4
1939-40: Residence in the Green House, still occupied in 2025 (461 Helmsburg Rd., Nashville,
across a road from the Pink House).
Pink House remained the ceramics shop.
- 5
1941-2: Residence and Salesroom in the Walter Mathis House.
Pink House remained the ceramics shop.
- 1942-44: Chicago, Illinois. Karl worked at Carnegie-Illinois Steel and
the Armour Research Foundation, and taught ceramics evenings
in Hull House (where the family lived)
and at Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's Institute of Design.
- 1944: Becky, Eric and Brian returned from Chicago while Karl finished up his work
in Chicago. They lived briefly in an old
farm house in Unionville, Indiana (6931 IN-45, Unionville IN) owned by
Karl's parents, which later became their retirement home called
Meadowridge.
- 1945-48: Karl began the studio ceramics program at Indiana University's Dept.
of Fine Arts, initially using equipment he sold to I.U. when he closed the
Pink House studion in 1942. During this time, the family lived in the Snodgrass Cabin,
360 N. State Rd 135, Nashville, Indiana.
- 1948-50: The family lived in a triple-wide trailer in Bloomington, Indiana.
Brown County, Indiana:
- 6
1950-1960: Martz Studio.
Bloomington, Indiana:
- 7
1961-1997: Garage Studio in Residence.