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Kelly Marie Martin Riot Grrrl Collection

Call Number

MSS.349

Dates

1977-2001, inclusive
; 1992-1998, bulk

Creator

Martin, Kelly

Extent

4 Linear Feet in 7 manuscript cases and 1 oversize box

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Biographical Note

Kelly Marie Martin is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and activist living in Los Angeles. She plays guitar in the Old Time trio Triple Chicken Foot, with Ben Guzmán on fiddle/mandolin and Mike Heinle on banjo, and is a founding board member and "Cook" at the Bicycle Kitchen, a not-forprofit bicycle repair and education workshop in central Los Angeles.

Martin co-founded the zine Thorn with friend Tammy Rae Carland in San Francisco in 1992, and continued to produce 5 more issues of the zine on her own under the editrix moniker of Keroscene. In 1993, Thorn was "Zine of the Month" in Sassy magazine, and was banned in Canada when it was sent along with the zine Hippie Dick to the Spew conference in Toronto.

Martin has an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and has exhibited her work in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Rejmyre, Sweden and performed at REDCAT and Highways. Her work has been published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Imaginary Syllabi (Palm Press, 2011), and Cog Magazine as well as in numerous self-published books and zines. In 2009, Martin published a book of her 4x5 photographs called Bike It: Portraits of My Bicipandilla.

Arrangement

This collection is separated into two series:

Missing Title

  1. Series I: Zines, Magazines, and Flyers
  2. Series II: Thorn

Both series are arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Content

This collection contains zines, magazines, and flyers collected by Kelly Marie Martin in the early and mid-1990s. It also contains copies and original masters of Martin's own zine, Thorn.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); Kelly Marie Martin Riot Grrrl Collection; MSS 349; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Originals for Thorn zine are currently not available to researchers due to preservation concerns.

Collection processed by

Laura Newsome, 2012.

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 17:12:54 -0400.
Language: Description is in English.

Repository

Fales Library and Special Collections
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012