About Marty Pottenger
Name: Marty Pottenger
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Web Site: http://www.martypottenger.com
Bio: Since 1975, writer, performer, director and activist Marty Pottenger has created performances, plays, arts-based civic dialogues, and community arts projects throughout the United States and Europe. The New York Times described her OBIE-winning “City Water Tunnel #3" as“Lyrical...speaking with intimate knowledge, and yes, even love...a blending of Studs Terkel, Anna Deavere Smith and Pete Seeger.” ABUNDANCE, written from interviews with 30 millionaires and 30 minimum wage workers, was selected as one of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s 'Ten best plays of 2003'. A former union activist, Board Chair of the American Festival Project and member of Heresies magazine core collective, Pottenger moved to Portland Maine in 2007 to launch Art At Work, a national initiative to strengthen cities through strategic art projects. In addition to serving as Art At Work's Director, she is currently writing 'Cake Eaters,' a collection of prose poems about life in Chicago, Pittsburgh in the 50's and 60's. More on her work can be found at http://www.martypottenger.com and http://www.artatworkproject.us