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Kansas City-based artist Rita Blitt has donated about 800 pieces of her work to Washburn University's Mulvane Art Museum.Artist hosts workshop, encourages students' talents. Since 1977, Rita Blitt said she has been dancing on paper. Blitt said she creates her abstract art by attacking her canvas with eyes closed, a paintbrush in each hand and classical music playing in the background. The final result is the kind of art that has made her famous worldwide.Blitt said, "If I influence others as they did me, that would be my honor." Blitt's sculptures, up to 60 feet tall, and paintings, drawings and films, have been installed and seen in museums and public places in many countries. Her archive collection will be permanently seen in the Rita Blitt Gallery and Sculpture Garden of the Mulvane"Caught in Paint" is a 6-minute film capturing painter/sculptor Rita Blitt painting on four by eight transparent surfaces while choreographer David Parsons and members of the Parsons Dance Company are seen in midair, through the painting, imitating the dancing lines of Blitt's paint strokes. Lois Greenfield, who collaborated in this union of ...Rita Blitt: Around and Round is a full-color, beautifully produced collection of works by internationally renowned artist Rita Blitt. The works gathered in these pages are selections from Rita Blitt's output from 1958 to the present and are representative of her many mediums—painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and interdisciplinary ...The Primaries," Red", "Yellow " and "Blue" at the Rita Blitt Sculpture Garden, Mulvane Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas. Kansas University - Edwards Campus, Overland Park, KS. 2018. Confluence sculpture, donated by an alum to Washburn University, Topeka, KS. 2015Rita Blitt: The Passionate Gesture "From the time she could pick up a crayon, painter/sculptor Rita Blitt has never ceased to make art. ‎2000. 10 . The Agendaneers I {Norwegian}: Schematoria .Rita Blitt: Around and Round Book Pre-Sale I am honored by Mulvane Museum's book Around and Round about my legacy collection in the Rita Blitt Gallery and Sculpture Garden. Please enjoy a sneak peek of the book HERE. Sunday 02.23.20 Posted by ...20 thg 7, 2012 ... ASPEN - Rita Blitt has been concentrating on things other than making drawings, paintings and sculptures the last few weeks.Below: Photograph (detail) by Brian Lanker, Ruby Dee, 1986, Mulvane Art Museum permanent collection. I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America will remain on view through the remainder of 2020. This collection of photographs and interviews with some of the most historically and socially influential women of the …Rita Blitt Gallery Collections Sculpture. Monumental Sculpture Bronze Pedestal Sculpture Film; Books ; News; About. Biography Resume Bibliography Collaborations Kindness Program RITA BLITT. Painting/Drawing. On Paper; On Canvas; Rita Blitt Gallery ...Rita Blitt is a featured artist of Lifetime Artists: Michael Warren Contemporary. This exhibit salutes artists of longevity, highlighting those who are at least 70 years old and have been practicing their artistic craft for a least 45 years. The exhibit runs Oct. 16 - Dec. 19, 2021 with concurrent exhibits. Related Events:Rent textbook Share a Smile 20 Postcards by Blitt, Rita - 9781951412562. Price: $13.50[9780963078582] Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Nov. 2000-Feb. 2001. Includes...Rita Around and Round is a full-color, beautifully produced collection of works by internationally renowned artist Rita Blitt. The works gathered in these pages are selections from Rita Blitt's output from 1958 to the present and represent the many forms she works in – painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and interdisciplinary collaboration.Dancing Waters is a new exhibition at Topeka’s Mulvane Art Museum, curated by museum director Connie Gibbons, and featuring the work of Rita Blitt, who has been making art consistently and diligently for over sixty years. In that time, Blitt has created a body of work of immense breadth and scope, encompassing thousands of drawings and ...At the Aspen Design conference, Mario Lavista introduced his avant-garde music with words about having been inspired by visual art and Li Po (701-762) poetry. After hearing the music, filled with emotion, Rita Blitt ran backstage to meet Lavista. She invited him to join her and her husband in her studio after the program.Rita Blitt: Around and Round is a full-color, beautifully produced collection of works by internationally renowned artist Rita Blitt. The works gathered in these pages are selections from Rita Blitt's output from 1958 to the present and are representative of her many mediums—painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and interdisciplinary ...rita blitt - featured speaker at mit hacking arts Hacking Arts ignites entrepreneurship and innovation within the creative arts. We bring together creative technologists, artists, innovators and hackers at MIT to explore the future of the arts at our annual Festival, Arts & Tech Expo and Hackathon.Rita Blitt: Around and Round is a richly satisfying book, not least because it spans seven decades in the career of this artist, from the 1950s up until the present, including paintings from 2019. At nearly 90 years of age, Blitt has revealed herself to be a prolific, dynamic and varied artist, comfortable working with different media and on ...GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - Rita Blitt stands near her sculpture "Dancing" on the Valley View Hospital grounds in Glenwood Springs. View Hos She touches the warm metal as the sun shines on a blue-sky Colorado afternoon. The sculpture is a scaled-down version of the 26-foot piece featured in a mall in Kansas City, Mo."Rita Blitt: Around and Round" celebrates more than 60 years of her work — sculptures, paintings, drawings and video. The cover of Blitt's new book. (Tra Publishing. August 2020) Over 100 pieces of creativity, straight from Blitt's heart, jump off the book's pages. It's the kind of book you make sure is on the coffee table when ...

Artist hosts workshop, encourages students' talents. Since 1977, Rita Blitt said she has been dancing on paper. Blitt said she creates her abstract art by attacking her canvas with eyes closed, a paintbrush in each hand and classical music playing in the background. The final result is the kind of art that has made her famous worldwide.Rita Blitt : the passionate gesture by Blitt, Rita. Publication date 2000 Topics Blitt, Rita -- Exhibitions Publisher Santa Monica, CA : RAM/Brandeis Collection inlibrary; …Rita Blitt's sculptures, many monumental in scale, can be viewed in public spaces from California to New York, and throughout the world. View Monumental Art Several years ago artist Rita Blitt turned on some music in her studio and started to paint with two hands. It was freeing, she says. "It felt like I was dancing." Plus, if you take a broad look at the influence that gesture and motion have had on her work, it's not hard to figure […]

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