Center. The films were produced between 1948 - 1954. Simple slab methods (1948, 11 min) Glaze application (1949, 11 min) Stacking and firing (1950, 11 min) Throwing (1950, 11 min) Decoration (1952, 11 min) Simple molds (1954, 11 min) In 1975, he did a 25 min film titled, possibilities in clay, and also featured Thomas Marsh, Ginny Marsh, Kathy Salchow, and John Goodheart. Recognition In 1965, Martz was elected as the president of the Ceramics Education Council of the American Ceramic Society (ACS). As the president, he was a leader in the separation of that group from the ACS and the founding of the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) in 1966. In 1977, there was a major retrospective exhibit at the Indiana University Art Museum on the occasion of Martz's retirement. In 1992, he was inducted as a fellow of the American Craft Council. In 2009, Kathy M. McKimmie wrote Clay Times Three about Martz. Examples of his work are (or were) in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Lisbon, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the IBM Corporation, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse New York, the Minnesota Museum of Art in St. Paul, the Hall Collection at the University of Nebraska, and several museums in Indiana including the Midwest Museum of American Art, the Indiana University Art Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Personal life In 1935, he married Margaret Rebekah “Becky” Brown. Initially, they lived in a small cabin on a hill just south of Nashville, Indiana, where Martz built his first kiln: "I built a kiln out in the woods. Didn't know a thing about building kilns, of course. I got a big 20 gallon stoneware crock, knocked the bottom out to get a draft, and put a pan underneath to drip oil into so the flame would come up through. Can you believe this? It smoked terribly -- great clouds -- and the neighbors thought we were running a moonshine still. But I could get copper reds on the bottom and chrome reds on top, all in the same firing. Pretty soon I talked my dad into financing a real kiln." Soon they rented a cabin in the woods, North of Nashville, Indiana. They