About Martha Black For twenty years the Curator of The Isaacs Gallery in Toronto, Canada, Martha Black was a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria, where she has taught Northwest Coast Native art history, at the time of the publication of Bella Bella. Books by Martha Black Spirits of the Coast Orcas in Science, Art and History edited by Martha Black, Lorne Hammond & Gavin Hanke Out of the Mist Treasures of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Chiefs by (author) Martha Black