![]() ![]() During this time, he was the recipient of the acclaimed Minneapolis College of Art & Design McKnight Fellowship in the Visual Arts. Little did he know, the moving experience would directly influence the way he approached the design of the interior of the Marty’s Waffles food truck.įor sixteen years after college, Marty was a nationally exhibiting sculptor and respected college art professor serving up lessons in keen observation, insightful reflection, and the teachings of the fine craft of the hand-made object. While attending college, he worked for a national moving and storage company, moving families and their household items all over the US. The cookies would be shipped from Texas to share with family and friends across the country. He would bake hundreds of dozens of intricately made Christmas cookies using old family recipes from when he used to make them with his mother and grandmother. On winter breaks during graduate school, Marty would step out of the studio and into the kitchen. Long before Marty knew what food trucks were, he fantasized about having a portable, nomadic, food business that would travel around serving people. Art seemed a natural path for Marty, for as long as he can remember, he has been fond of making things. Having developed a strong work ethic from his father and a love of art from his mother, Marty pursued undergraduate and graduate degrees in art - a BFA in photography from Northern Kentucky University where he was a scholarship student, and an MFA in sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin - a top 20 MFA program where he earned a 4.0. Little did he know, lessons learned in those early classes would become the foundations for his two career paths - one he chose, the other chose him. When the time came to take either wood shop or home economics in middle school, he chose both. When Marty was a young boy, his mother enrolled him in basic cooking classes taught by a local home economics teacher. ![]() Whether it was family visiting town, a birthday, a holiday, we were fortunate that there was always a huge spread of food shared by all. Having grandparents of Italian descent on one side and French and Belgian on the other, great food was always the center of every occasion. He also comes from an extended family that found every possible reason to celebrate anything with great food, especially baked goods. He comes to the food truck profession after a 16-year teaching career as a college professor, both in Minnesota and Kentucky. After living in Seattle (WA), Austin (TX), and Moorhead (MN), he and his family are now at home in the rolling hills of Alexandria, Kentucky. Marty Meersman, owner and artisan of Marty’s Waffles, is a Cincinnati native. ![]()
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