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Martha Longenecker
Martha Longenecker
Born	(1920-05-18)May 18, 1920 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Died	October 29, 2013(2013-10-29) (aged 93) La Jolla, San Diego, California
Nationality	American
Other names	Martha Williams Longenecker, Martha W. Longenecker, Martha W. Longenecker-Roth
Alma mater	UCLA, Claremont Graduate School
Occupation(s)	Artist in Pottery (Mingei), Art Educator, Art Collector, Museum director
Spouse(s)	John Longenecker, Sydney Martin Roth
Children	2
Awards	Order of the Rising Sun (Japan)

Martha Longenecker (May 18, 1920 – October 29, 2013) was an American artist, Professor of art, and founder of the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California.^[1]

Early life

On May 18, 1920, Longenecker was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At 9 month old, Longenecker arrived in California by train. Longenecker grew up in Monterey Park, California and Pasadena, California.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Education

Longenecker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art and a minor in English from the University of California Los Angeles. Longenecker studied painting with Millard Sheets. Longenecker earned an Art Education Credential and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School.^[5]^[3]^[1]^[4]

Longenecker made her first visit to Japan in 1952. There she expanded her knowledge of the Japanese arts and crafts movement called "mingei".^[6] Longenecker undertook postgraduate research in Japan, where she studied from Shoji Hamada (1894–1978) and Tatsuzo Shimaoka (1919–2007).^[5]^[4]

In 2007, Longenecker received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from San Diego State University.^[2]^[3]

Career

Longenecker created her ceramic arts from her own ceramic studio in Claremont, California. From 1944 to 1964, Longenecker exhibited her ceramic arts through Dalzell Hatfield Galleries.^[5]

In 1955, Longenecker developed a ceramic program at San Diego State University in San Diego, California. From 1955 to 1990, Longenecker was Professor of Art at San Diego State University, where she taught ceramic and design history.^[5]^[2]^[3]

In 1974, with the financial support from her husband, Longenecker incorporated Mingei as a nonprofit organization. Longenecker oversaw the development of the first Mingei museum, which opened in May 1978 at University Town Centre in San Diego, California. In 1978, Longenecker became the museum director.^[5]^[2]

Longenecker also oversaw the architectural design and the development of the Mingei International Museum at a new facility located at Plaza Dr Panama in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, which opened in August 1996. It is a 41,000 square-foot facility.^[5]

By 2005, Longenecker had publisher 33 books.^[3]

In October 2005, Longenecker retired as the museum director of Mingei International Museum.^[2]^[7]

In October 2013, Longenecker established Mingei Legacy Resources Foundation.^[2]

Awards and recognitions

1998 Distinguished Service Medal. Given by San Diego State University.^[2]
2003 Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. Given by Emperor of Japan.^[5]
2005 Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council.^[8]
2011 Inducted into the San Diego Women's Hall of Fame.

Personal life

Longenecker's first husband was John Longenecker. Longenecker's second husband was Sydney Martin Roth. Longenecker had two children. Longenecker lived in La Jolla community of San Diego, California.^[5]^[2]^[3]

Following a stroke, on October 29, 2013, Longenecker died at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, San Diego, California. She was 93 years old.^[1]^[7]

Legacy

1998 Martha W. Longenecker Director's Chair Endowment Fund.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Colker, David. "Martha Longenecker dies at 93; founder of Mingei International Museum". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Martha W. Longenecker: A Founder's Legacy". estatesalelajolla.com. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Bell, Diane (May 9, 2010). "Q&A: Diane Bell talks to Martha Longenecker". sandiegouniontribune.com. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Martha W. Longenecker". Women's International Center. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "About – History, About Martha Longenecker". Mingei International Museum. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
^ "How Martha Longenecker brought Japan's 'art of the people' to the world". Christie's. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b Murphy, Susan (October 2013). "Mingei International Museum Founder Martha Longenecker Has Died". kpbs.org. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
^ "Martha Longenecker". craftcouncil.org. Retrieved November 20, 2019.

v t e American Craft Council College of Fellows
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1975	Adda Husted Andersen Dorothy Meredith Ed Rossbach Frans Wildenhain Harvey Littleton Lenore Tawney Lili Blumenau Peter Voulkos Sam Maloof Toshiko Takaezu Trude Guermonprez Florence Eastmead Francis Sumner Merritt Margaret Patch Mary Lyon Maurine Roberts Rudolph Schaeffer
1976	Charles Loloma Else Regensteiner John Paul Miller Karen Karnes Laura Anderson Ronald Hayes Pearson Ruth Penington Anna Wetherill Olmsted Lloyd Kiva New
1977	Alice Kagawa Parrott Daniel Rhodes Don Reitz John Prip Mary Caroline Richards Ramona Solberg Robert C. Turner Aileen Osborn Webb
1978	Alma Eikerman Bob Stocksdale Dominick Labino Frederick Miller Jack Lenor Larsen L. Brent Kington Mary Walker Phillips Rudolf Staffel Rudy Autio Eugenia Campbell Nowlin
1979	Arline Fisch George Nakashima Gerry Williams Hans Christensen Katherine Westphal Joan Mondale Margery Anneberg Rose Slivka William Brown
1980	Bernard Kester Joel Myers Margret Craver Mary Nyburg Tage Frid Warren MacKenzie Eudorah Moore Robert W. Gray
1983	Douglass Morse Howell F. Carlton Ball Mary Ann Scherr Ruth Duckworth Sheila Hicks Marian Heard Susan Peterson
1985	John Mason Kay Sekimachi Marianne Strengell Maurice Heaton Richard Thomas Ted Randall Harold Brennan Sydney Butchkes
1986	Dale Chihuly Kenneth Ferguson Wendell Castle
1987	Beatrice Wood Claire Zeisler Dominic Di Mare Edward Moulthrop Heikki Seppä June Schwarcz Richard DeVore Robert Sperry Val Cushing Carlyle Smith James Wallace Jonathan Fairbanks LaMar Harrington
1988	Albert Green Arthur Carpenter C. Carl Jennings Frances Senska Fritz Dreisbach Glen Kaufman Harrison McIntosh Mark Peiser Mary Scheier James McKinnell Nan Bangs McKinnell Paul Soldner Phillip Fike Polly Lada-Mocarski Ted Hallman Walter G. Nottingham William Daley C. Malcolm Watkins James Melchert Lloyd Herman Marion Stroud Swingle Paul J. Smith Rudy Turk
1990	Edris Eckhardt Frances Higgins Francis Whitaker Gertrud Natzler Lillian Elliott Margaret Tafoya Michael Higgins Otto Heino Otto Natzler Viktor Schreckengost Vivika Heino Blanche Reeves R. Leigh Glover
1992	Cynthia Schira David Shaner Edgar Anderson Joyce Anderson James 'Mel' Someroski Karl Martz Kurt Matzdorf Marvin Lipofsky Robert Arneson Stanley Lechtzin Walker Weed Helen Drutt English Mildred Constantine Ruth DeYoung Kohler
1993	Betty Woodman Gerhardt Knodel Jere Osgood John Marshall Kenneth Price Margarete Seeler Oppi Untracht Robert G. Hart
1994	Albert Paley Henry Halem John McQueen Merry Renk Patti Warashina Robert Ebendorf Rude Osolnik Stephen De Staebler Viola Frey Lee Nordness
1995	Charles Counts Ferne Jacobs Fred Fenster J. Fred Woell Karl Drerup Richard Marquis Wayne Higby Michael Monroe
1996	Betty Cooke Claude Horan Garry Knox Bennett Helena Hernmarck Jun Kaneko Kenneth Bates Mark Levine Mary Lee Hu Jean Griffith Virginia Harvey
1997	Chunghi Choo Jack Earl Ka Kwong Hui Lia Cook Bob Winston Ron Nagle Tommy Simpson William Keyser Sandra Blain
1998	Dan Dailey Edwin Scheier Eleanor Moty James Bassler Judy McKie Richard Mawdsley Richard Shaw William Harper Paulus Berensohn
1999	Dorothy Barnes Helen Shirk Irena Brynner Nancy Crow Paul Marioni Ralph Baccera Therman Statom Fred Marer
2000	Adrian Saxe Anne Wilson Cynthia Bringle Eugene Pijanowski Hiroko Sato-Pijanowski James Krenov Joyce Scott Marjorie Schick Paul Stankard Christa C. Mayer Thurman Theodore Cohen
2001	David Ellsworth Gary Noffke Joan Livingstone John Glick Michael James Norman Schulman Thomas Patti Warren Seelig Alice Rooney
2002	Harlan Butt Jane Sauer John Cederquist Paula Winokur Robert Winokur Garth Clark
2003	Ana Lisa Hedstrom James Tanner Kurt Weiser Norma Minkowitz Tom Joyce Albert LeCoff
2005	Alphonse Mattia Flora Mace Gary Griffin Joey Kirkpatrick Linda Threadgill Patricia Hickman Martha Longenecker
2006	Akio Takamori Howard Ben Tré Jason Pollen Kiff Slemmons Walter Hamady Stuart Kestenbaum
2007	Arturo Sandoval Marilyn da Silva Mark Lindquist Richard Notkin Robert Brady William Morris Nanette Laitman
2008	Adela Akers Glenda Arentzen Gyöngy Laky John Horn Robyn Horn Tony Hepburn Toots Zynsky Wendy Maruyama Lois Moran
2009	Benjamin Moore Bernard Bernstein Carol Shaw-Sutton Jamie Bennett Louis Marak Rosanne Somerson Robert Pfannebecker
2010	Ginny Ruffner John Garrett John Stephenson Rebecca Medel Ron Ho Susanne Stephenson William Hunter Janet Koplos
2012	Andrea Gill Anne Currier Dante Marioni Lewis Knauss Sharon Church Sherri Smith Thomas Loeser Bruce Pepich
2014	John Gill Jane Lackey Michael Hurwitz Judith Schaechter Bruce Metcalf William Carlson Tina Oldknow
2016	Nick Cave Michael Cooper Françoise Grossen Chris Gustin Myra Mimlitsch-Gray Hank Murta Adams Edward S. Cooke Jr.
2018	Mark Burns Thomas Gentille Thomas Hucker Mary Jackson Beth Lipman Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Susan Cummins Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
2020	Sonya Clark Lisa Gralnick Katherine Gray Annabeth Rosen Bob Trotman Patricia Malarcher
2022	Teri Greeves Karen Hampton Nancy Koenigsberg Keith Lewis Kristina Madsen Mark Pharis Preston Singletary Tip Toland Carolyn Mazloomi Howard Risatti Lowery Stokes Sims
2024	Syd Carpenter Michael A. Cummings Einar and Jamex de la Torre Yuri Kobayashi Mark Newport Michael Puryear Diego Romero Lynda Watson Diana Baird N'Diaye Cindi Strauss
Recipients of the Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship Dorothy Liebes (1970) Anni Albers (1981) Harvey Littleton (1983) Lucy M. Lewis (1985) Margret Craver (1986) Peter Voulkos (1986) Gerry Williams (1986) Lenore Tawney (1987) Sam Maloof (1988) Ed Rossbach (1990) John Prip (1992) Beatrice Wood (1992) Alma Eikerman (1993) Douglass Morse Howell (1993) Marianne Strengell (1993) Robert C. Turner (1993) John Paul Miller (1994) Toshiko Takaezu (1994) Rudolf Staffel (1995) Bob Stocksdale (1995) Jack Lenor Larsen (1996) Ronald Hayes Pearson (1996) June Schwarcz (1996) Wendell Castle (1997) Ruth Duckworth (1997) Sheila Hicks (1997) Kenneth Ferguson (1998) Karen Karnes (1998) Warren MacKenzie (1998) Rudy Autio (1999) Dominic Di Mare (1999) L. Brent Kington (2000) Cynthia Schira (2000) Arline Fisch (2001) Gertrud Natzler (2001) Otto Natzler (2001) Don Reitz (2002) Kay Sekimachi (2002) William Daley (2003) Fred Fenster (2005) Dale Chihuly (2006) Paul Soldner (2008) Katherine Westphal (2009) Albert Paley (2010) Stephen De Staebler (2012) Betty Woodman (2014) Gerhardt Knodel (2016) Jun Kaneko (2018) Joyce J. Scott (2020) Jim Bassler (2022) Lia Cook (2022) Richard Marquis (2022) Judy Kensley McKie (2022) John McQueen (2022) Patti Warashina (2022) Nick Cave (2024) Wendy Maruyama (2024) Anne Wilson (2024)

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2002	Madge Bradley Alemi Daba Jane Dumas Lucy Killea Gracia Molina de Pick
2003	Alice Barnes Margaret Burbidge Gloria Johnson Ardelia McClure Lilia Moreno de Lopez Midge Neff-LeClair Nancy Reeves Beverly Yip
2004	Rulette Armstead Herminia Enrique Doris Howell Joan Kroc Mary Maschal Gloria McClellan Jean Stern
2005	Evelyn Clarke Alyce Smith-Cooper Anne Ewing Helen S. Hawkins Ruth Heifetz Alice Hohlmayer
2006	Nona Canon Jeri Dilno Lucy Gonzales Deborah Lindholm Sally Ride Kate Sessions Ashley Walker
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2010	Gloria Harris Judith McConnell Vivian Reznik Laura Rodriguez Anna Sandoval
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