Milestones Long-Time Fine Arts Professor Paul Martyka Mourned
Fine Arts Associate Professor Paul Martyka passed away unexpectedly on Jan. 27.
The Detroit, Michigan, native, who joined Winthrop in 1979, taught drawing, painting and printmaking in the Department of Fine Arts.
“Paul Martyka brought an unusual perspective to our art students,” said Tom Stanley, department chair. “They regarded him fondly and with respect because of his influence and generosity as he urged others to become passionate about their work.”
Martyka was the fourth recipient of Winthrop’s Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Faculty Grant, a grant established to further new work, research or collaboration by faculty culminating in an exhibition project in the Patrick Gallery. An exhibition of his hand-printed cut paper collages, called “Conversations with an Echo,” ran in fall 2009 in the Patrick Gallery.
One of the collages still hangs in the DiGiorgio Campus Center first-floor classroom. In the intricate details of this work, Martyka references cultural identities or art historical pieces as inspiration for color and form.
The collages attracted regional attention and accolades poured in. In fall 2008, Martyka’s collage “Totemic Talk” was featured in the S.C. State Museum’s 20th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, and won Best in Show and the museum’s Purchase Award.
Catherine Cahaly Grainger ‘78 Katherine (Kathy) Gibson Burdette ‘79 David John Simonson ‘79
1980s William Oscar Johnson ‘80 Lois Gass Thompson ‘80 Martin Jay McDonald ‘81, ‘89 Mary Ruth Folsom Ballard ‘84
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Lisa Gaye Campbell ‘84 Cynthia (Cindy) Marcel Martino ‘84 James (Jim) Boyce Caldwell III ‘88
1990s Brand Channing Baughman ‘90 Leslie Baucom Schild ‘90 Alison Crosby Glick ‘91 Larry Edward Crowe ‘91, ‘99
Graham Scott Schulken ‘94
2000s Joan Meldau Woerner ‘01 Hugh Charles Haynsworth IV ‘02 Keith Thomas McLaughlin ‘04 Daniel Johnsen Baer ‘05 Arnold Dorenz Komola ‘07, ‘09
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