Martie Geiger-Ho earned a Ph.D. (Fine Arts Interdisciplinary) with an emphasis in art education at Texas Tech University, Texas, August 2003. Her dissertation, "Pathways of Transmission: Investigating the Influence of Chinese Kiln God Worship and Mythology on Kiln God Concepts and Rituals as Observed by American Ceramists" is an ethnographic study of the worship practices associated with the ceramics industry in Jingdezhen, China. In 1994 she earned her M.F.A. in ceramics and painting from Texas Tech University and in 1987 she received an M.A. from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Geiger-Ho earned her B.F.A. from Arizona State University in 1984, with "Distinction in Ceramics." Dr. Geiger-Ho began her art career as an Arts and Crafts Specialist in the United States Army, 1974-1977.
Dr. Geiger-Ho accepted a position in the summer 2003, as an adjunct art instructor at University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Pennsylvania where she taught ceramics and art history. Prior to her teaching at Pitt-Bradford, she taught ceramics, art history, art education, and sculpture as an assistant professor of art at Mississippi University For Women, 2001-2003. She resigned her position as an assistant professor so that she could devote all of her efforts towards her ceramics and her new passions, fused glass and silver clay.
Dr. Geiger-Ho is also an art educator (life-time Texas teaching license), and she has taught full-time in both public U.S. schools and at the private Hong Kong International High School. Before going to work in Hong Kong as the Assistant Director of I-Kiln Studio, 1996-1999, she undertook a one-year teaching assignment as a visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, 1995-1996.
Dr. Geiger-Ho helped to co-found I-Kiln Studio, and together with I-Kiln Studio’s Chairman, Mr. Chan Kam Shing and her husband Kong Ho, she helped to organize Hong Kong’s first large scale raku project (this project involved helping to secure a large grant form the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the teaching or workshops, and the organization of a major exhibition at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Center). During her three years in Hong Kong, Dr. Geiger-Ho participated in many local, invitational and juried shows, and she was a recipient of two individual Hong Kong Arts Development Council Grants. Dr. Geiger-Ho was also a frequent lecturer and course instructor at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Center and the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Dr. Geiger-Ho was a part-time Visiting Lecturer at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University in the fall 1998. Additionally she also taught ceramics at I-Kiln Studio and The Pottery Workshop from 1996 to 1999. In August of 1997, she facilitated a forum on Hong Kong's censorship policies entitled "Uncensored Censorship" at the Fringe Club.
