Western Avenue Lofts Artist Certification

Marteen Kibbe
(creates and performs under
Marti Kole)


Ms. X Book Trailer

YouTube Video
Narrated, written, directed, produced, and edited by Marti Kole
Artwork by Will Strawbridge

Raney Winter is a 38-year-old Gen Exer who wakes up one morning and discovers she can fly. No idea why or how, but she can fly! She’s already dealing with a dozen other real-life problems, now what in the hell is she supposed to do with this?!?!

This is not your typical superhero story. Think of it as Deadpool meets Wonder Woman.


Nashgirl01 EP

CD Jacket on Brown Paper Bag Textured Paper
Art and Design by Marteen Kibbe (as Marti Ryan)
Photography by Sonja Rhodes
All songs written and performed by Marteen Kibbe (as Marti Ryan)
Click here if you’d like to listen to this EP and more of my music on Soundcloud

I have a joke that it’s a requirement to have an EP or know someone who has an EP if you want to live in Nashville, Tennessee. (Awesome – that rhymed. Poet and don’t , . . you know.)

This is the cd jacket for my EP. CDs are a dying (or probably officially dead) form of media, but I always loved to read the jacket and examine the images on record, CDs, and cassettes while listening to the first listen-through of whatever album I’d bought. The art adds to the experience. I feel that’s something lost in a digital download.

I am extremely proud of this whole project, as I never dreamed I’d one day write a bunch of songs, sing a bunch of songs, play keyboards on a bunch of songs, and design the entire artwork for the collection of these bunch of songs. I sold these CDs at my shows in Nashville.


Pikachu in the Beanstalks

Acrylic Painting
by Marti Kole


The Last Song I Wrote in Nashville

Written and Performed
by Marti Kole

Lyrics here



Let Me Be Lonely With You

Written
by Marti Kole and Sara Bolton
Keyboards and Lead Vocals
by Marti Kole

Lyrics here

Click here if you’d like to listen to this song and more of my music on Soundcloud


Universe’s Song

Digital Art
by Marti Kole


My Soul

Digital Art
by Marti Kole


The Unusual Conclusion of Planetary’s End

Short story
Published in Watkins College of Art Literary Magazine
by Marti Kole

Click here to read The Unusual Conclusion of Planetary’s End


I Stand With Watkins’ Students
and Their Vote of No Confidence

Blog Commentary on the Closing of Watkins College of Art
written and photographs by Marti Kole

Click here to read I Stand With Watkins’ Students and Their Vote of No Confidence