Michelle Martin is a Professor of Art at The University of Tulsa and Director of the School of Art, Design and Art History at The University of Tulsa. She received her BFA in 1993 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and earned her M.F.A. in Printmaking at The Ohio State University in 1996. An active artist working in all print media and drawing, her work has been shown in over 230 national and international exhibitions since 1995, including venues in New Zealand, Venezuela, Iceland, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, England and Canada. 

She has won numerous awards and purchase prizes, including an Oklahoma Artist of Excellence Award in 2003, the 2007 Print Prize in the Bradley Print and Drawing Exhibition, and the Oklahoma Visual Arts Fellowship (Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition) in 2008, two Brackett-Krennerich Purchase Awards (Delta National Small Prints Exhibition) in 2013 and 2014, Materials Awards (2018 Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial) and Recognition/Purchase Awards from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Her work is in several private, public and university collections, including the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art (Ft. Wayne, IN), Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA), Kohler Library (Madison, Wisconsin), Muscarelle Museum of Art (The College of William and Mary), the Akron Museum Art Library Program, The College of Notre Dame of Maryland permanent collection, Rutgers Center for the Innovative Paper, the Southwest Collection (Texas Tech University), the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum (University of Louisiana) and Wichita Art Museum (Wichita, KS).