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June 2008
   Two oil paintings by Marta Whistler will be featured in a month-long exhibition at the Satura-Associazione Culturale in Genoa, Italy.

April 19, 2008
   Marta Whistler will hold a special one-day Open Studio Event from 10:00am to 8:00pm at 19 N. 2nd Street, Easton, PA 18042. For this day only, all works on paper, featuring oil pastels and mixed media work, will be available at 50% off the regular studio price.

November 2007
   One of Marta Whistler's newest paintings was exhibited in a collective exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum, 31 5th Street, Allentown, PA

October 2007
   Marta Whistler's new work was exhibited in a collective exhibition at the historic State Theatre, Easton, PA.

   A large (67x96) oil painting by Marta Whistler has just been acquired by the Shriners' Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and has been hung in a public area there.

September 2007
   Marta Whistler month-long solo exhibition of "Textural Paintings" at the noted Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA was extremely well-attended and well-received. Art critic Geoff Gehman, of the Allentown Morning Call reviewed the exhibition:
PAINTINGS TEXTURED AND TEXTILED
   "The Baum School of Art is an open house for paintings, textiles and painted textiles. Its current exhibit of Marta Whistler's textured, textiled abstract oils places all three birds in one cage.
   Whistler's signature style is a lightly reliefed, biting grid woven with metrical splotches of bright, ghostly colors. Tightly or loosely spaced, troweled or fingernailed, her paintings are compellingly lit and delightfully loomed. Looming is not the only illusion; one can also spot a trellised chalkboard and a birch-bark lantern.
   Every now and then Whistler changes the plot. One fairly dark, densely circled, bubbling oil could be mistaken for peacocked wallpaper designed by William Morris. Another work wriggles with translucent yellow-red serpentine lines so delicately painted, they could have been dyed."

May 2007
   Marta Whistler held a tremendously successful Annual Open Studio event on May 19 and 20.

April 2007
   Marta Whistler participated in a juried exhibition by ACE in Bethlehem, PA. Her work was singled out for praise by Allentown Morning Call critic Geoff Gehman as "Marta Whistler shakes up the still life with purple-lined vases with wispy flowers on an orange and purple table with pink shards and shooting perspective lines.