Marty Meade has been a glass artist since 1973, studying traditional stained glass with Judy Raffael, (now known as Judy North). Marty has been teaching glass art at the College of Marin since 1978 and won the College of Marin's Academic Senate award for Community Education teacher of the year in 2006. In 1981, she traveled to Chartres France to study with Roger Darricarrere.
Her teaching has taken her to the Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, where she introduced stained glass as a fine art. In 1982 she testified before the California Assembly as the expert in the field on changing AB3299 to include stained glass as a fine art. She has specialized in commissioned stained glass for private homes and autonomous panels for galleries. She is also a painter, teaching watercolor at the College of Marin since 1995.
Marty has been inspired by her Pima Indian and Mexican heritage. Her Corn Necklace came from a dream image, and was created as a tribute to this sacred food source.
She is the recipient of a California Arts Council Grant, Marin Arts Council Community Grant. A stained glass series depicting San Geronimo landscape, is now part of the permanent art collection at the San Geronimo Community Center. It was designed by Marty, and created by Valley students under her direction.
