Martha Vaughan’s illustrations appeared regularly in The Washington Post for over thirty years as well as in regional and national magazines, newspapers and books. She combines traditional and digital media to create images of wildlife and nature themes that have appeared on greeting cards, posters and apparel for National Wildlife Federation, World Wildlife Fund, United States Humane Society, CBS Sunday Morning and Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.
Martha is a professor emerita at Montgomery College. She was coordinator of the Graphic Design and Illustration Program in the Media Arts & Technologies Department on the Rockville campus from 2004–2020 and received an Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2019. She also coordinated the Media Arts Gallery at the college. She currently works part time as an academic advisor.
She served as president of the Illustrators Club of Washington and chaired the Society of Illustrators 42nd Annual Exhibition in New York.
She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in the Illustrators Club, Washington DC, the Media Arts Gallery, Rockville MD and 7 East Gallery, Woodstock VA including Illuminations, Both Sides Now, A Life in the Year, World Turning and Silver Linings. Her work is frequently featured as a guest artist at Dusty Roads Studio during the Countryside Artisans Studio Tour in Montgomery County. Recently she collaborated with potter Jennifer Hamilton for a two person exhibition, Dusty Roads and Silver Linings at the Artist in the House Gallery located at Locals Restaurant, part of Riverworks Art Center in Poolesville MD.
She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MA in Illustration from Syracuse University.
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