Marty Pottenger
| Marty Pottenger | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 30, 1952 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Performance artist |
| Notable work |
City Water Tunnel #3 What It's Like To Be a Man Art At Work |
| Awards |
Obie 1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships: 1992, 1994, 1999 MacDowell Colony Fellow 2016 |
City Water Tunnel #3
What It's Like To Be a Man
Obie 1996
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships: 1992, 1994, 1999
Marty Pottenger (born March 30, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an award-winning American playwright, performance artist and theatre director. Pottenger is a pioneer in the community arts and arts-based civic dialogue movement.Joan Shigekawa, former Acting Chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts, named Pottenger as one of her favorite artists "...for her deep engagement with the lives of working people."
Pottenger was a founding member of Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. She was writer, artistic director, and solo performer in City Water Tunnel #3 a multi-media, Obie-winning play and community art project about the building of the largest (non-defense) public works project in the Western Hemisphere.
Pottenger is also the Founder/Director of Art At Work (2007-2015), a national initiative piloted with the City of Portland Maine’s departments, unions and elected officials to improve municipal government through strategic arts projects, in collaboration with artists and community members. Pottenger is currently a consultant with the city Boston, MA on an Art At Work inspired project called Boston AIR.
She is the current Executive Director of Terra Moto Inc., a multidisciplinary arts organization.
Pottenger is the Founder/Director of Art At Work (2007-2015), a national initiative piloted with the City of Portland Maine’s departments, unions and elected officials to improve municipal government through strategic arts projects. In response to the success of her community performance project "home land security," the City of Portland Maine asked Pottenger to develop a city-wide initiative that would use the tools of stories, art and performance to address long-standing issues of discrimination and perceived prejudice within the city government and the school system, with the objective of increasing equity. Art At Work (AAW) was created as the first US city/school/community partnership to develop ways for creativity and the arts to effectively address discrimination, inequity and a growing sense of disenfranchisement between multiple sectors of the city.
Over the next eight years, Art At Work’s ideas have been re-created in seven cities and two countries, training hundreds of artists for residencies in city departments, unions, and neighborhoods putting people at the center of creative placemaking. In 2013, Pottenger launched Art At Work Holyoke in Holyoke MA.
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