Marty Pottenger
Founding Director
ART AT WORK
Marty Pottenger is a theater artist, playwright, activist, and pioneer of creative placemaking. She is the founder of Art At Work, a national initiative putting creativity to work strengthening communities and local governments’ ability to meet challenges of health, inequity, partisanship, and climate emergency. a A 2013 MacDowell Fellow, Marty received an OBIE award for a performance and five-year community art project called City Water Tunnel #3. She is currently creating MAINEUSA – a musical theater performance and community arts project about the history of Maine from the Ice Age till now. Nine narrators, seventy-five singers, musicians, dancers, and a life-size Right Whale puppet will offer a shared narrative to audience members who see little commonality with each other in these times. inspire Mainers to come together with a fierce determination to combat climate destruction. www.artatwork.us