Millennium Magazine_8th Ed

35 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT Since 2003, Ms. Kearns has been an adjunct professor of art history, and also spent two years as a lecturer, at Lehigh University in Philadelphia. For 14 years, she was the executive director of FrankfordStyle, a community arts organization, and holds teaching and administrative experience from Antioch University from the 1980s. Additionally, Ms. Kearns was an artist-in-residence at Philadelphia’s Frankford Group Ministry in 1986. She is renowned for creating the course “History of African Art,” which was adopted into the undergraduate curriculum of Moravian College in 2006. To add to her creative background and academic success, Ms. Kearns is the author of “Kaethe Kollwitz, Woman and Artist,” the definitive biography of the German graphic artist and sculptor, and a pioneering work regarded as a classic. She has also been a critic to “Voices of Women,” the play co- arranger to “My Lifetime Listens to Yours,” a video screenwriter for “Frankford Stories” and playwright for “King Christina.” Notably, Ms. Kearns was awarded the Arts and Business Partnership Award from the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia in 1999 and won First Prize from the New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest in 2003. She is also a Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands, a Humanities Fellow by Aston Magna Academy of Baroque Music and Art, and an Antioch University Fellow to the Vatican. Alongside her great victories, Ms. Kearns finds her definition of success to be “to fulfill the gift that you have been given.” She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Cosmopolitan Club and a charter member of Adona Gracia. She also serves as a volunteer to the Rosenbach Museum and Library and St. Martin’s Episcopal Church Sunday School. I nspired by her parents’ love for education, as well as her gift for writing poetry, Martha Kearns was destined for a career driven by intellect and a love for teaching. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Arcadia University in 1967, where she studied “the big picture” and what it means to be human, and also obtained a Master of Science fromAntioch University in 1977. MARTHA KEARNS HUMANITIES EDUCATOR, AUTHOR, CRITIC Lehigh University Philadelphia, PA