Kyle R. Martin was born and raised in Austin, Texas. He graduated cum laude from St. Edward’s University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Writing & Rhetoric: Creative Focus. He won third prize in the Austin Chronicle’s 2011 Short Fiction Contest and went on to publish more fiction and essays with Foxing Quarterly, Fields Magazine, and Ambit Magazine (UK & Europe), among others. He first arrived at The Stark Center in September 2014 when Jan and Terry Todd hired him as a library assistant. After nearly four years, he left to start his own design firm, KRM Exhibit Design, and has worked on exhibits for The LBJ Presidential Library, The Briscoe Center for American History, and The Stark Center. In January 2020, he officially returned home to The Stark Center as the curatorial associate.

Kyle R. Martin
Curatorial Associate
Kyle's Posts
Mark Henry’s 1992 U.S. Olympic Team Windbreaker
The Mark Henry Collection at The Stark Center includes a number of artifacts from Mark’s dynamic career as powerlifter, strongman,...
Weider Beer Hall Painting
In 1989, Joe Weider commissioned Lorenzo Ghiglieri to produce this oil painting based on a famous print depicting a training...
Darrell K Royal 2005 Championship Ring
When Mack Brown was named head football coach at the University of Texas in 1998, he was immediately tasked with...
“Portrait of a Powerlifter” by Bill Wiman
Painting, oil on canvas. At first glance, there is something curious in Bill Wiman’s “Portrait of a Powerlifter,” a familiarity...
Glass Dancers
Teresa Lozano Long gifted this crystal sculpture to the Stark Center in the spring of 2017. Jan and Terry were...
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