Martha Otis videotapes the lectures given by
visiting artists for the art professors to use in their teaching. Her
involvement with the Visual Arts Program includes Printmaking and
Drawing on special paper that she made at The Mason Gross School of
Art (earning a MFA Degree in 1994.) Earlier, as a potter she learned
African techniques at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (1974) and
later fabricated a set of gourd-shaped Udu drums for John Cage and
Merce Cunningham for the piece, "Five Stone Wind," which was
premiered in New York (City Center) in 1989. She lives in Princeton
with her husband of one year, Professor John Gager. Nearby live her
two adult children with growing families that now include six
grandchildren.
