An Exhibition Expedition: Martin Betz is the new Cultural Arts Manager for Manhattan Beach
Martin Betz.GLORIA PLASCENCIA, CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Martin Betz and his family landed at Ontario International Airport on July 4, 1964. “My parents almost had a heart attack because, you know how things are around here on July 4.” He laughs. “They thought they were moving from one fascist country to another. “I was born in Germany,” Betz continues. “My dad (Hans Dieter Betz) is a world-renowned theologian and philosopher. He left Germany because a lot of people didn’t agree with what he was saying.” Now, half a century later, this theologian’s son has become the Cultural Arts Manager for the City of Manhattan Beach. This is his first month on the job, he’d only been on it four days when we spoke, but he brings years of experience to the position – a position that has actually lain fallow for two or three years. Up the ladder “I got interested in art early on,” Betz says, sitting back in his brick-walled office at City Hall. “I was a ceramics person for a long time.” That is to say, he spent a while in the ceramics department at Cal State Fullerton, but what he came to perceive as a limited medium eventually had him looking elsewhere. “This was the ‘80s. I was more of a punk…
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