Adrian Martinez, internationally known artist, teacher, and lecturer, will speak about his experiences creating art at the White House, working with President and Mrs. George W. Bush, and how this experience changed his art and ambitions growing up in Washington D.C. He will share his insights and knowledge of American art, history, and culture in the last half of the 20th century, and how his artistic evolution in the 21st century has progressed. Using his first hand experience as stage actor/dancer, set designer, art and history lecturer, curator, museum exhibit designer, painter, sculptor, and print-maker, Martinez makes a case for cultural survival in this new and challenging era of exploding information.

Adrian Martinez was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Washington D.C. He received degrees from the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore, Maryland (BFA), St. Martins School of Art in London, England (CS) and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana (MA). His work has been exhibited in New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Indiana, California, London, and Ankara, Turkey and is in private collections including the George W. Bush Presidential Library art collection.