Conny Martin is a well-known fine art painter and a native of Lubbock, Texas. She was a charter member of the Lubbock Art Association, created in 1951, and wrote Art Lives in West Texas as a three-year personal project to bring information about regional art activities up to date.  Conny was inspired by  Art on the Texas Plains by Elsie Montgomery Wilbanks, published in 1959, which chronicled the beginning of art on the Plains from pre-history through the first nine years of LAA’s history.

Choosing to publish under the name  Conny McDonald Martin, she wrote the book that covers fifty years of art activity in the twenty-one counties that make up what is geographically called the South Plains. Art Lives in West Texas features area universities and Lubbock art centers and galleries. It also features regional towns and biographies of over 300 artists and instructors, as well as references to individual artists working professionally, and human interest stories about artists and workshops.  The 15-page index has approximately 1,325 entries.

ISBN 0-9670928-1-7, 2003; 465 pages with index. Price $26. which includes Texas sales tax and shipping.