Trisha Oralie Martin Ibarra

trishaOmartin@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2012 MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago
2006 BA in Fine Arts with an Emphasis in Painting and Printmaking, San Diego
State University

TEACHING/ RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2017 Multimedia Art Teacher, High Tech High Media Arts, San Diego, CA

2016 Food and Science Lab Coordinator Carl Schurz High School, Chicago, IL

CommunityEvents Coordinator, Pamanang Pinoy [Series] The Field Museum,

Chicago, IL

Program Coordinator, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL After school coordinator

for Columbia’s Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP)

2015 Teaching Artist, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

Taught “Artist Books” for the Summer Arts Summit

Teaching Artist, Mini Makers Faire Chicago, Chicago, IL Lead “Paper Clay
Mache" workshop with Carl Schurz High School students

Teaching Artist, CCAP at Ravenswood Elementary School, Chicago, IL “Mixed

Media Arts” for grades 2nd-5th in relief printmaking and book arts

Teaching Artist, GE at Marquette Elementary School, Chicago, IL

Teaching Artist, CCAP at Carl Schurz High School, Chicago, IL “Art As Action”
uses hand papermaking and relief printmaking to create work that is actively used
in the community in response to issues of social justice

2014 Teaching Artist, Mini Makers Faire Chicago, Chicago, IL

Lead “Paper Clay Mache" workshop with Carl Schurz High School students

Teaching Artist, Wellness House, Hinsdale, IL Taught “Beginning Bookbinding”

workshops to youth and adults
 Teaching Artist, CCAP at Carl Schurz High School, Chicago, IL “Creative
Expressions” explores hand papermaking and printmaking

Mentor, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL Mentor for Teaching Artist

minors

2013 Teaching Artist, 20 Neighborhoods Project: Phase II, Chicago, IL

Teaching Artist, Matisse Monet and Me, Chicago, IL

Teaching Artist, Uptown Arts Center, Chicago, IL Beginning hand papermaking,

book-art and installation community workshops

Teaching Artist, Mini Makers Faire Chicago, Chicago, IL Lead “Flexagon

bookbinding” workshop at Carl Schurz High School students

Teaching Artist, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago, IL Hand Papermaking

community workshop

Teaching Artist, CCAP at Carl Schurz High School, Chicago, IL

2012 Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

Undergraduate Hand Papermaking responsibilities include curriculum design/
development, syllabus design and implementation, teaching fundamentals of
hand papermaking, studio and equipment maintenance, equipment training,
supply inventory

Studio Assistant, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC Paper/Book/Object

with Kathleen O’Connell

Teaching Artist, 20 Neighborhoods Project, Chicago, IL

2011 Teaching Artist, Columbia College Chicago, IL

Teaching Artist, Bessie Rhodes Magnet School, Evanston, IL

Bookbinding workshop

2007-09 Long-Term Substitute Teacher, Sweetwater Union High School District,

San Diego, CA responsibilities include development and implementation for art
instruction at the School of Creative and Performing Arts Chula Vista High School for
 beginning to advanced placement art and computer arts

2007-09 Visual Arts Instructor, A Reason To Survive, San Diego, CA

responsibilities include development and implementation for art instruction of
youth facing various adversities.

2006-09 Intern, Bay Park Press, San Diego, CA

responsibilities include maintenance of studio and equipment, preparation of
gallery for exhibitions, and assistance in edition and book production

2001-06 Facility Administrator- Guerrero Adult Residential Facilities, San Diego, CA

responsibilities include practicing basic living skills, assisting in outings such as
Special Olympics, maintaining all records for the care home and occasional
overnight management relief.

COLLABORATIONS/ STUDIO & CURATORIAL WORK

2015 Art and Anthropology: Portrait of object as Filipino The Field

Museum, Chicago, IL

Art and Anthropology: Portrait of object as Filipino Erehwon

Center for the Arts, Quezon City, Philippines

2014 Philippine Digitization Project

The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Reni Gower, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL Handmade paper and
pulp painting production.
10,000 Kwentos Project, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL Document Filipino
artifacts and photographer for Kwentuhan 3.
Streets of Manila, Activate, Chicago, IL Installation of relief prints and handmade
paper work with proceeds benefiting Watts of Love in the Philippines.
10,000 Kwentos Project, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Document Filipino artifacts and acting scribe for Kwentuhan 2.

2013 Tandem Felix Studio, Chicago, IL

Pre and post-production press work, equipment and studio maintenance.

2012 Girls Action League, Benton House, Chicago, IL

Hand papermaking, printmaking and book collaboration with the youth.
Material Assumptions, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL Hand
 papermaking production. An invitational exhibition about the ways handmade
paper is approached as a medium and technology designed and curated by
MFA students in the InterArts Department at Columbia College Chicago.

2011 The Guerrilla Girls, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago , IL
Handmade banana leaf paper and letterpress prints. Politically-driven collaborative
project.

Hardin ng Kalikasan, Quezon, Philippines Book and handmade paper collaborations. A

women’s hand papermaking micro-industry in the Philippines that produces handmade
paper products such as journals, photo albums, paper bead jewelry and curtains,
handmade paper bags cards and artwork.

Laura Anderson Barbata, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL Handmade
paper production for artist book. During her residency at the Columbia College Chicago
Center for Book and Paper, I produced handmade Abaca paper for her artist book.

The World As Text: Design charrette with John Preuss. Center for Book and Paper
Arts, Chicago, IL A collaborative investigation of a reading room design using reclaimed
materials and everyday furniture in unconventional ways to house artists’ books and
create a performance space.

2010 Sheronawë Hakihiiwë, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
Hand papermaking edition collaboration. Artist directed pulp-painting
production of his original paintings inspired by traditional Yanomami stories.

2009 Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

Produced a series of staged photographic images of historic architecture in
abstract, dreamlike landscapes using food.
Bay Park Press, San Diego, CA Printmaking and book edition production.
Letterpress prints, intaglio prints and artist book production for collaborations
between Jim Machacek and Sibyl Rubottom.
Sibyl Designs, San Diego, CA Book edition production. Book
binding/production and handmade box production for books such as The
Sibyls, Animals of Chiapas and The Water Book: Lane of Thoughts.

AWARDS/ HONORS

2015 John D. and Catherine T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION GRANT

“Art and Anthropology: Portrait of the Object as Filipino” The
Field Museum
2014 “Typhoon Haiyan, One Year Later: Remembrance and Reconstruction”
Center for International Studies and the Global Program for the
Environment, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2013 Uptown Residency, Uptown Arts Center, Chicago, IL

Ten Thousand Ripples Project

2012 Studio Assistant Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

Paper/Book/Object with Kathleen O’Connell

Spot Award, Rights Radicals and Revolution Critical

Encounters Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

2011 Graduate Opportunity Award

Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

EXHIBITIONS

2016 Asian American and Pacific Islanders in the Arts: Exhibits at CPL
Toman Branch, Chicago, IL
Unfolded: Made With Paper Chicago Design Museum,
Chicago, IL
Shared Language: A Community Classroom Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL
Pulped Under Pressure Visual Arts Center, Portsmouth, VA

2015 Exceptional: Handmade Paper beyond Substrate

Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Art and Anthropology: Portrait of the Object as Filipino The
Field Museum, Chicago, IL
EXPO CHICAGO, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
East Room Art Show, East Room, Chicago, IL
Art and Anthropology: Portrait of the Object as Filipino
Erehwon Center for the Arts, Quezon City, Philippines
Never Enough, Club Wrecked Em’, Chicago, IL
Black/ White Art Show, Club Wrecked Em’, Chicago, IL

2014 Typhoon Haiyan, One Year Later: Remembrance and Reconstruction,

International House at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Garage Sale, Tri Triangle, Chicago, IL
 Finite Growth, Human Thread Gallery, Chicago, IL
Social Paper, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL

2013 If All Else Fails, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

Ten Thousand Ripples, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Transparent Depictions, part of the Ten Thousand Ripples Project, Uptown
Arts Center, Chicago, IL

2012 Breathing in City Clouds, part of the Columbia College Chicago

InterArts MFA Thesis Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book
and Paper
The 5th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial, Rutgers
University and Corcoran College of Art and Design, New Jersey and
Washington DC
First Generation, Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL

2011 The Clouds We Breathe, part of the InterArts installation series, 916 S
Wabash, 2nd Floor, Columbia College Chicago
Transmute, part of the InterArts installation series, 916 S Wabash, 2nd Floor,
Columbia College Chicago
Manifest Urban Arts Festival, Conway Center, Columbia College Chicago
Next: Art Fair, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
InterArts New Graduate Work Exhibition, Galley, Columbia College
Chicago Center for Book and Paper

2010 Identity: Mapping Connections, Work Studio, Chicago, IL

ARTifacts, Galley, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper
Pulp Ink and Thread, Moraine Valley College, Palos Hills, IL
Edible Books, Columbia College Chicago Library

2009 Off the Wall, Bay Park Press, San Diego, CA

The Printer’s Devils, Apprentice show at Bay Park Press, San Diego, CA

2008 Winter Gallery Show, A.R.T.S. Gallery, San Diego, CA

Juried Show, SWC Student Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

2007 Correspondences, Bay Park Press, San Diego, CA

Installations, SWC Student Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

2006 Boundaries, The Common Ground, San Diego, CA

 Capturing the Orient, Group show at Aubergine, San Diego, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Hardin ng Kalikasan: Natures Garden” Hand Papermaking, Volume 29, Number 1,

Summer 2014. 41-42 Publication as Author and Illustrator InterArts Book and Paper
Alumna Widens Scope of Uptown Arts Center Project. By Kathleen Beste
http://blogs.colum.edu/interarts-cbpa/2013/04/11/interarts-book-and-paper-alumna-wide
ns- scope-of-uptown-arts-center-project/
Filipino-American Artist to Lead Uptown Art Effort. By Adeshina Emmanuel, dnainfo
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20130228/uptown/filipino-american-artist-lead-uptown-
art- effort
Those Third Years Did Pretty Good: Thesis. By Hannah King, Marginalia blog http://
blogs.colum.edu/marginalia/2012/04/30/those-third-years-did-pretty-good-thesis/
#.UJwuboX_Iy4 Featured In
Artist of the Week. Shellie Lewis’ Blog: An art blog to inspire
http://shellielewis.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/artist-of-the-week-trisha-oralie-martin/
Featured In
InterArts Book + Paper MFA Exhibits in National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art
Exhibition. By Kathleen Beste
http://blogs.colum.edu/interarts-cbpa/2012/02/24/interarts-
book-paper-mfa-exhibits-in-national-collegiate-handmade-paper-art-exhibition/ Featured
In
Picturing Recent Futures. By Interdisciplinary Arts, published February 2010. Lulu
print-on- demand Featured In A workshop led by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, an architect
and assistant professor at Tyler School of Art Architecture and Temple University,
producing a series of staged photographic images of historic architecture in abstract,
dreamlike landscapes.

CONFERENCES/ PRESENTATIONS/ PANELS

2016 SAIC: School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Chicago, IL. Panal Nandito Na Ako: I’m Here Now

2012 Penland School of Crafts: a national center for craft education.

Penland, NC. Presented Art As Action projects: Breathing in City
Clouds and Hardin ng Kalikasan, Quezon, Philippines

2011 Alliance of Artists Communities: a national and international

association of artists' communities and residencies. Chicago, IL Bridging
Communities: Social Projects in Book and Paper with Kaitlin Kostus and April
 Llewellyn. Presented Art As Action project Hardin ng Kalikasan, Quezon,
Philippines

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP/ AFFILIATIONS

Friends of Dard Hunter CAA Alliance of Artists

Communities International Association of Hand
Papermakers and Paper Artists

REFERENCES

Melissa Potter Associate Professor

Interdisciplinary Arts Columbia
College Chicago mpotter@colum.edu
312-526-3669

Bryan Saner Artist,

Collaborator, Activist
bsanerb@gmail.com
773-412-9268

Dr. Neal D. Matherne

Post-doctoral Researcher
The Field Museum
nmatherne@fieldmuseum.
org 909-254-7243