Artist in Residence
The Arts for learning and life
This year we will be continuing the tradition of making New Boston Central School “A special place to learn and grow” by offering students in Readiness through Sixth grade the experience of working with:
Marty Kelley is coming to NBCS! We look forward to welcoming Marty Kelley to our school in mid-March. He is going to be doing an Artist Residency with our 5th grade! He is an author and illustrator of hilarious books for elementary-aged children. Below is
Marty's "bio" from his website.
Marty Kelley: Author, Illustrator, Recovering Second Grade Teacher.
I’m currently a children’s author and illustrator but have, in the past, been a second-grade teacher, a baker, a cartoonist, a newspaper art director, a drummer in a heavy metal band, a balloon delivery guy, an animator, and lots of other things. I’ll probably continue writing and illustrating children’s books for many years to come because there are few other jobs where being able to paint a perfect booger-bubble is an actual job requirement.
My career as an artist started when I began drawing historically accurate pictures of spaceships dropping bombs on dinosaurs. When I started going to school, I found even more artistic fulfillment in creating advanced character studies of my teachers. By the time I was a freshman in high school, I had a regular comic strip published in our local town paper. After high school, I attended The School of the Museum of Fine Arts to become an animator.
Shortly after art school, I had a career crisis and moved to Florida where I went back to school and got my degree in elementary education. I taught second grade for several years before making the difficult decision to pursue writing and illustrating full-time.
I’ve written and illustrated many published children’s books, including: Almost Everybody Farts; Pugnapped; Experiment #256; Fall Is Not Easy; The Rules; Winter Woes; Summer Stinks; Twelve Terrible Things; A Cape!; and Fame, Fortune, and the Bran Muffins of Doom.
In my spare time, I visit lots and lots of schools all over the country to show students how I create my books.
My career as an artist started when I began drawing historically accurate pictures of spaceships dropping bombs on dinosaurs. When I started going to school, I found even more artistic fulfillment in creating advanced character studies of my teachers. By the time I was a freshman in high school, I had a regular comic strip published in our local town paper. After high school, I attended The School of the Museum of Fine Arts to become an animator.
Shortly after art school, I had a career crisis and moved to Florida where I went back to school and got my degree in elementary education. I taught second grade for several years before making the difficult decision to pursue writing and illustrating full-time.
I’ve written and illustrated many published children’s books, including: Almost Everybody Farts; Pugnapped; Experiment #256; Fall Is Not Easy; The Rules; Winter Woes; Summer Stinks; Twelve Terrible Things; A Cape!; and Fame, Fortune, and the Bran Muffins of Doom.
In my spare time, I visit lots and lots of schools all over the country to show students how I create my books.