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Martha Rich Art Projects
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Freelance illustrator and fine artist based in Philly via LA and Maine. Art, cats, absurdity. Plus I’m the Democratic Committee Person for the 2nd Ward, Division 10 in PHL 🤙🏼 Phillies + Eagles! Linktr.ee/martharichart
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I’m mad. My store is open til November 15. Martharichartprojects.bigcartel.com
A piece of artwork. It’s vertical with a maroon background and big pink rounded letters that fill the space. The letters say “Ruin the workplace.” There are small colorful stars interspersed amongst the letters. The artwork is made with painted cut paper collaged onto the background. Copyright Martha Rich 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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I’m working at my polling place today like I do every election! Afternoon shift. I still find it a thrill. Everyone who works there is from the neighborhood. And I get to see all my neighbors! I don’t think people understand how local elections are. It’s truly amazing. It gives me hope.
A colorful art piece with a black background. It’s say “voting is a thrill” in big red letters cut out of paper. Around the words are planets, stars, comets and shapes in many different colors. Artwork is by Martha Rich.
November 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Sitting on my stoop watching birds n’ squirrels and sipping coffee. There’s bird drama concerning a French fry. Small stuff keeps me going. 🙂 Lit dropping in my neighborhood after the 🦅game.
Picture of a coffee mug on a table outside on the street with a door hanger next to the mug. The door hanger has information for voting in Philadelphia on November 4. The design is by Martha Rich with a yellow green background, a pink pigeon with 7 black speech bubble above it head endorsing: Brandon Neumann, Stella Tsai, Larry Krasner, Christy Brady, Will Braveman, Leon A. King II, Brian Kisielewski, Irina Ehrlich, Deborah Watson-Stokes, Sarah Jones, Kia Ghee, Larry Farnese, Anthony Stefanski, Amanda Davidson, Sherrie Cohen, Cortez Patton and yes on retaining the Judges!
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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My contribution to Philly protest today. There were a lot of people there! #nokings
A picture of the Philadelphia no kings protest on the mall in front of Independence Hall. It’s a crowd shot with the Hall in the distance. In the foreground is a pink Pokémon looking thing and I’m holding up a pink speech bubble that says “power to the people at the top of the picture. A picture of the Philadelphia no kings protest on the mall in front of Independence Hall. This is looking backwards from the Hall and is a picture of me holding up the pink speech bubble in front of my face, this side of the bubble says “trump is a weak-ass loser. I have pink sunglasses on and gray wavy hair.
October 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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More love.
A piece of art with a painterly light blue background. At the bottom is the work love gut out of green painted paper. There are variations of green on the words. Above “love” is a multi colored flower with many petals all a unique color. In the center of the flower is green star with an eye in the middle. The artwork is made with painted cut paper. Copyright Martha Rich 2025.
October 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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PA must vote yes to retain our judges! It’s on the back of the Vote by mail ballot ! See info at phila2ndward.org!
A poster to encourage retaining judges in PA. The background is a dark teal. The is an orange pigeon with pink legs at the bottom filling more than half the page. There are speech bubbles all around the pigeons head and body. From the left. Two black bubble with turquoise hand-written type it says “hi birds” + “Phillies.” At the top from left to right: black bubble with turquoise writing “ yo pa” yellow bubble with black type “ vote yes to retain all judges” black bubble with pink writing “ a loser rich guy wants you to vote no” black bubble with turquoise “ no excuses” black bubble with orange type “vote Nov 4” black bubble with yellow type “questions? Phila2ndward.org. Below the pigeons tail it says We have power, use it or lose it!” There are various stars and comets and shapes in different colors all around the page. Art is copyrighted by Martha Rich 2025.
October 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Made this for October 18. I’m sick of these a-holes.
A poster for No Kings March on October 18. It features a yellow background with a black cat head. At the top of the page it says “no kings” in puffy black hand-written type. Between the cat’s ear is a small black crown with an X on it. There are black stars flowers and shapes around the head. The cat has stripes in lots of different colors. Its fangs are out. Below the head it says October 18th and below that it says nokings.org, all in puffy black hand-written type. Next to that type it says “power is ours. Time to use it” also in puffy black hand-written type. Art is ©️Martha Rich
October 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Made this the other day. It ain’t over til it’s over. We keep pushing back until the wack job weirdo magas are all gone. Those losers want us to feel like they are all powerful so we give up. Don’t believe it. It definitely sucks but it ain’t over.
A piece of art with a painted background and salmon colored puffy letters that fill the page that say “Ain’t over til it’s over.” The letters are hand cut paper made by Martha Rich.
September 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I made a bunch of little art for no reason because having no reason is the funnest way to make art. So I’m opening my online store from 9/15 to 9/20. Opens at noon philly time today. Martharichartprojects.bigcartel.com
A photo of a bunch of colorful pieces of art laid out on a table. The art is a mix of abstract designs, spiders, cats and plants. The artwork is made by hand using cut paper that was painted with acrylics. Art is by Martha Rich.
September 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Go birds!
Phot of street art in Philly, a person in a green shirt with an eagle head holding up a sign that says “blow the Whistle.
September 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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A sweet cat made by hand. The claws and sharp teeth are ready.
A picture of a maroon cat on a golden green background with the word ANTI at the top. The cat looks sweet with with big wide eyes and a slight smile. The art is acrylic paint on cut paper. Copyright by Martha Rich 2025. All rights reserved.
September 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Let’s revolt. I hear there is another No Kings protest on October 18!
A picture of a piece of art with a pink background and gold starburst at the bottom of the page with colorful circles in varying sizes placed all around it. At the top is the word “revolt” in pink. All the shapes are cut out of hand painted paper. Artwork is made by hand by Martha Rich.
September 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I’m making a book of creepy weird bootlicker traitor simpleton whiny baby losers in my spare time. Made from cut paper on an old painted catalog. It’s highly satisfying to do. I have long list of losers to complete.
A cut paper portrait of peter theil’s floating head.The background is pink. His face is pasty white with highlights cut from black and white paper. His hair is a block of mud color. He has two beady blue eyes. There are pink dashes coming from his. Below his head are the words I AM WATCHING YOU in fluorescent red hand cut letter. A picture of trumps floating head. The background is pale pink. His head is fluorescent green with his features cut out if black paper. His hair is puke green green with highlight cut from white paper. He looks like a monster. The word WAH is placed to the left of his mouth. At the bottom of the page is says LOW IQ made from cut paper. The picture shows the cover of the book. The background ground is gray and has the following words filling the page from top to bottom: CREEPY (in salmon) WEIRDO (in blue) BOOTLICKER (in pale yellow) TRAITOR (in green) SIMPLETON (in dark green) WHINY (in avocado green) BABY (in avocado green) and LOSERS (in red). The words are stacked and justified left. The words are all hand cut paper.
August 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Needed to make something wholesome this morning. A whole helluva lot of people have forgotten the golden rule! P.S. cats in Philly greet each other “meeyo” in case you didn’t know. 😜
Art that shows two cats laying on their backs. The cat on the left is yellow, the cat on the right is pink. The background is red. Above the cats is handwritten puffy black text that says “love your neighbor” below the cats at the bottom of the page in a similar style it says “as yourself.” To the right of the yellow cats head is a pink speech bubble that says “meeyo” in white puffy handwritten type. Below it to the left of the pink cat’s head is a speech bubble in yellow that says the same thing! Sprinkled around the cats are various black yellow and pink shapes. Art is by Martha Rich, hand drawn digitally on an iPad.
August 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This is kinda cool. After more than 20 years being an artist, my work is on the cover of a magazine!
A photo of the cover of Hi Fructose magazine. The cover is light pink with a dark pink jack rabbit in the middle and the magazine title in white at the top of the page. The rabbit has a pink speech bubble to the left of its head that says “I should exercise” written in white. Artwork by Martha Rich.
August 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I am hand-writing thank you notes that I made by hand to some very kind people and I can’t tell how soothing it is.
A picture of two cards, a black pen, a pile of pink envelopes set near the corner of a keyboard. The card on the bottom left is pink with a white skull surrounded by colorful random shapes. The card next to it on the right is green with an abstract maroon plant also with abstract shapes surrounding it. Art is made with painted cut paper by artist Martha Rich.
August 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Latest hand-made sketchbook page. There is enough for everyone, but billionaires are hoarding money instead of helping. It’s depraved.
A picture of a handmade sketchbook page using cut paper. In the lower left side of the page is a light aqua blue rectangle with “There is enough for everyone” cut out of it. Surrounding the rectangle are hundreds of multi-colored shapes in rows. Artwork is by Martha Rich.
July 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Made this sketchbook by hand to express my crap rage feelings. Acrylic cut paper collage. 🤪😡 #art
A picture of a sketchbook page of cut paper art. The left page is yellow. The right side is white with two butterflies. One in the upper left corner with blue wings and orange middle. One in the bottom right with pink wings and orange middle. There are multi-colored stars sprinkled around the page. In the middle of the page it says “mind-blowing bullshit” in green and is laid out diagonally. Art by Martha Rich.
July 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I’m teaching a class where they make a sketchbook and get experimental and messy trying different techniques using their hands not AI. It’s loose and fun. Here is a page from my sketchbook. I’m tired of assholes running things. We need decent people in charge.
A photo of a hand made sketchbook spread standing up on edge. The left side is a brown sheet of construction paper with a texture in light blue and orange made by painting on bubble wrap. On the left side it’s a white page with light blue circles and a silhouette of a cockroach. Over the spread are two strip of yellow paper. The top strip has “we need less” written out using cut paper. Two inches down is another strip of yellow paper with “assholery” written using cut paper. Art by Martha Rich.
July 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I’m making a bunch of hand made thank you cards to send out to a bunch of people who spoke to my FIT class. Cutting paper and gluing it is very enjoyable. Just an fyi making art by hand is better than making art with AI. AI art is theft. #art
A photo of a grid of 17 handmade thank you cards on a wood floor. Each card has colorful shapes in different variations on them from flowers to houses to a comet and more. Art is by Martha Rich
July 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Together we win. #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I made another one while watching the Phillies lose last night. #nokings nokings.org
A poster of a yellow chicken and a yellow background. There are black speech bubbles all around the chickens head. Each bubble had swords in them handwritten in white. Words are from bottom left around head to the right, each bubble word is in quotes. “Ha” “ha” “ha” “a joke” “taco” “man baby” “no creepy rambling losers” “no kings” “June14” and “weak ass.” Written in darker yellow on each side of the chicken “we have” “power” above the yellow words are 2 black lightning bolts. Below the yellow words are “more info bookings.org” and “fight for democracy” written in black. Artwork by Martha Rich (copyright 2025)
June 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I was thinking about this tonight. They aren’t deporting violent criminals. They’re kidnapping people off the streets, most of whom are here legally. It is wrong and we need to speak out against it. It is home-grown terrorism.
An illustration of a yellow rat. With an orange back ground. There are white clouds in the sky and it’s raining. There are 3 speech bubbles above the rat. The first one says “Hey ICE” thr bubble below says “when you were a kid did you dream of bringing a human trafficker when you grew up?” Below that it says “I was just following orders doesn’t work when you are on trial.” Next to the rats head another speech bubble says “disobey.”
June 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Evergreen. Happy Pride! The men in charge are wrong and won’t last when we stand up for each other. There’s no honor among thieves. And that’s all they are, common two-bit racist thieves.
A piece of art depicting a LBTGQ rainbow with a deer underneath it. There are stars and comets and planets in the sky. The background is blue. And at the top it says “we stand up for each other.” The art is made with painted cut paper and is by Martha Rich.
June 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Hey this is for my Pennsylvania folks! Public transportation is healthy and good! It makes life easier and makes a city prosper. Also creates LESS TRAFFIC and POLLUTION!! If Philly suffers the, whole state suffers! Tell your Rep’s to FUND SEPTA for the good of Pennsylvania!!
A poster with an illustration of a red squirrel sitting up with a blue background. At the top of the page it says “fund SEPTA” in white hand-drawn letters. There is a big speech bubble above the squirrel’s head that says “a more prosperous state” and the 3 more bubble next to the squirrel’s face. “Less traffic” “cleaner air” “no brainer.” Below that it says “tell your rep to fund SEPTA.” There are stars and shapes sprinkled throughout the poster. Art by Martha Rich.
June 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM