The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON - Paintings by Martha Mason will be on display at the Liberty Theater through the month of February. Mason taught two-dimensional studio classes at Walla Walla Univer­sity from 1995 to 2013. In 2006 she and her husband, Jerry, moved to Dayton, Wash. They find the community to be very warm and they prize the sense of culture, history and idealism they find here.

Mason was born in Redlands, Calif. She took summer art classes in Sacramento and got hooked on art. Her formal training took place in several schools including UCLA and the University of Illinois where she received BFA and MF...