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Lorna Ritz
Amherst, Massachusetts
EDUCATION
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Master of Fine Arts; 1971 Double major: Painting and Sculpture
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York; BFA; 1969; Major: Painting, Minor: Sculpture
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine: Painting, 1968
The Art Students League, New York; Painting, 1966
Boston Museum School of Fine Art, summer diploma program, 1965
EXPERIENCE
2004-6 Lecturer, Western New England College, Springfield, MA.
2004 "Visiting Artist:" taught a 'Drawing Marathon,' @ The New York Studio School
2001 “Visiting Artist” @ American University, (Washington, D.C.); Studio Art Program, Umbria, Italy
2000 “Academic Consultant”, Taught painting at “Summer Institute for the Gifted,” at Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1992 & 1994 & 1996 Resident Critic for seniors and 1995 & 1996 Adjunct Painting Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design
1991 Resident Critic, Vermont Studio Center
1990 U.S. Information Agency, Massachusetts Partners of the Americas, Grant Award to teach, lecture and exhibit at Instituto de Belles Artes, Medellin, Colombia
1987-95 Taught at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, part-time
1985-90 Lectured and taught at the Vermont Studio School; “Vermont Artist’s Week”, Johnson, Vermont
1985-6 Traveled to Malta through the U.S. Information Agency lecturing program
1983 Traveled to Honduras; lectured and taught at the University
1978-9 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
1978 Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University, Rhode Island
1976-7 Assistant Professor of Painting, University of Minnesota
1975 Visiting Staff Member, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1973-5 Painting Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design
1972-3 Two-dimensional design instructor, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
1972 Painting Monitorship, James Gahagan School of Fine Arts, East Calais, Vermont
1971 Sculpture Instructor, part-time, Art Institute of Boston
1970 Cosanti Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona, worked under Paolo Soleri, architect; participated in his Cosanti Silt Pile #10 in the desert at the construction site
LECTURES
2004 & 1990 New York Studio School, NYC
2003 Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester, Massachusetts
2002 Huntington House Museum, Windsor, CT.
1998 Keene State College, New Hampshire
1998 Nantucket Island School of Art & Design, Massachusetts
1996 Trinity College, Connecticut
1991 American University, Washington, D.C.
1989 Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
1988 & 1994 Lectured at Smith College
1987 University of Delaware
1986 Brown University
1986 “LACOSTE,” French school of Cleveland Institute of Art, and the Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence
1986 Vermont College, Art Center, through the Art Resources Association
1985 Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont
1985 Bard College, New York
1983 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1982 & 1984 Dartmouth College
1976 Rhode Island School of Design
RESIDENCIES
Arts International Residency , (through the Augusta Savage Gallery at U.Mass), to culturally exchange ideas with artists in South Africa 2007
Helen Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico 2006
Arcadia National Park, “Artist-in-Residence”; Maine 2000
Fundacíon Valparaíso, Spain; painting residency, 1999
Vermont Council on the Arts, “Artist-in-Residence” Grant Award, 1981-83
Fellowship to Ossabaw Island Project, Georgia, 1978
Artist-in-Residence Grant to the Roswell Museum Art Center, New Mexico, 1975
Fellowship to MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, 1972 & 1976
AWARDS
Kittredge Fund Grant, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2000
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, New York City, 1990 & 1997 & 2004
Amherst Arts Council Grant Award to teach and lecture, 1990
Esther & Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant Award, New York City, 1988
Artists Space, New York City, 1987
Massachusetts Cultural Alliance Award, 1985
Ludwig Vogelstein Grant Award, New York City, 1984
Salmagundi Artists’ Fellowships, New York City, 1983 & 1988
U.S. Information Agency Grant Award, Vermont, Partners of the Americas, to paint, exhibit, travel, lecture, and teach at the University; Honduras, 6 weeks, 1983
Blanche E. Colman Grant Award, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Bank, Boston, 1981-2
Partial Scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1968
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 The Creative Center Gallery, (Chelsea), NYC
2004 Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts.
2003 Holyoke Community College's Tabor Art Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts
2003 Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester, Massachusetts
2002 Huntington House Art Museum, Windsor, Connecticut
1998 Redfern Art Center & Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, N.H.
1998 Doll-Andstadt Gallery, Burlington, Vermont
1998 University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts
1995 Gallery BAI, New York City
1991 Harriet Tubman House, Boston
1990 NACUL Architectural Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
1990 Nicole C. Gallery, Boston
1987 Hampshire College, Johnson Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
1987+1998:”Wet” Gallery, Boston
1986 Pooke Museum, Natick, Massachusetts
1986 Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1985 Bard College, New York State
1984+1997 AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire
1984 Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1983 National Arts Museum, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
1982 Millhouse Bundy Performing and Fine Arts center, Waitsfield, Vermont
1982 Blue Mountain Gallery, (Soho), New York City
1981 Claremont Opera House, Claremont, New Hampshire
1980 Little Center Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
1978 List Art Museum, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1977 Northrop Memorial Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1976 Berkeley Divinity Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1976 Connecticut College, New London
1975 Roswell Museum Art Center, New Mexico
1975 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.
2006 Capelli d"Angeli Foundation, Canton, CT.
2006 Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
2005 Watkins Gallery, Lenox, MA.
2004 NURTURE Art Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y..
2004 Wood Gallery & Art Center, Montpelier,Vermont.
2004 The Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
2003 Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 "Invitational Exhibition," Battelle Harding Gallery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
2003 The Art Center School and Galleries, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
2003 Prudential Securities, The Chrysler Building, New York, New York
2003 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2003 "Invitational : Abstraction Exhibition," @ The Painting Center, (Soho), NYC, N.Y.
2003 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut
2002 The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C.2002
2002 Premiere Etage Gallery, Newport, R.I.
2002 Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, (Durham)
2001 Terri Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA.
2001 Smith College Museum of Art, “Art on the Fence,” Northampton, MA.
2001 Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA.
2001 Fine Art House, Derry, New Hampshire
2001 Stanley and Vivian Reed Marine Art Show @ Stamford Art Association, CT.
2001“Visual Expressions on Jazz,” Savacou Gallery, Chelsea, and @ Hamilton Landmark Galleries, New York City
2001 “Small Things Considered,” Exhibition, NAWA, @ Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York City
2000 New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
1999-2000 Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
1999 Colored Pencil Society of America, 7th International Exhibition, . Seattle Washington
1999 Maryland Federation of the Arts, “National Juried Biennial” curated by Samuel Hoi, Dean, Corcoron, Gallery of Art, Annapolis, MD
1999 Gallery MPG, Newbury St. Boston
1998 non-objective Painting: Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1998 National Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, curated by Rachel Lafo, Bridget Moore and Will Barnet, Portland, Maine
1998 Marlen Gallery, New York City
1997 Eliza Sweet Gallery, Waldoboro, Maine
1997 University of Hawaii at Hilo
1997 La Mama La Galleria, New York City
1996 & 2000 “National Juried Exhibition” Bristol Art Museum, RI
1995 Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston
1994 John McEnroe Gallery, New York City
1994 Hillyer Gallery, Smith College, Massachusetts
1994 Ashuah Irving Gallery, Boston
1994 Milton Art Museum, Massachusetts
1994 Berkshire Artisans, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1994 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Rhode Island
1994 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City
1994 “National Competition,” Bowery Gallery, & 1995, “Invitational Exhibition,” New York
1993 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City
1993 PSA New York City Headquarters
1993 Hoho Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts
1992 Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
1992 Gallery 361, Providence, Rhode Island
1991 Lacoste Faculty Exhibition, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
1992-3 Sales and Rental Gallery, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts
1992 de Havilland, Boston, Massachusetts, Art Access Program
1992 12 White Gallery, New York City
1989 “NAWA,” Jacob Javits Center, New York City
2007 Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1988 Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1987 14th Street Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1987 & 1992; 3, 4, & 5 “Faculty Landscape Painters Group,” Northampton Center for the Arts, Massachusetts
1987, 1997 & 2000: Augusta Savage Gallery, New Africa House, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1980 & 1987 Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island
1985 Moonbrook Gallery, Opera House, Rutland, Vermont
1985 Shippee Gallery, New York City
1985 & 1992 Photocollect Gallery, New York City
1985 Boston Visual Artists Union, Massachusetts
1984-93 “Art in Embassies Program,” Washington, D.C.; paintings located in Guatemala City, Guatemala; Brazaville, the Congo; Banjui, The Gambia; Valetta, Malta; and Praia, Cape Verde
1984 Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham
1982 “Regional Selections,” Hood Museum at Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
1982 Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
1981 Allan Stone Gallery, New York City
1978 Museum Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1978 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1974 Museum of Art, Faculty Show, & Woods-Gerry Mansion, Rhode Island School of Design
1973 Visual Studies Workshop, “Little Slanted Gallery,” Rochester, New York
1973 Memorial Art Gallery, Finger Lakes Exhibition, Rochester, New York
1972 & 1987 The Arts & Sciences Center, Nashua, New Hampshire
1972 Summer Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
1972 Pucker-Safrai Gallery, Boston
1972 Faculty exhibition, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
1971 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
National Park Service, Acadia National Park Museum, Maine
Veridex, New Jersey
Johnson and Johnson Corp., New Jersey
Bank of Boston
International Bank of New England in Miami. Florida
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
High Voltage Engineering, Shrafts Center, Boston
Biogen Corp., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, New Mexico
Hale & Dorr Law Firm, Boston, Massachusetts
Simplex Corp., Westminster, MA
Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California
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