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Biography
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Rita Blitt, painter/sculptor
International, award winning painter/sculptor/film maker Rita Blitt has created art all of her life. She won scholarships as a child to the Kansas City Art Institute and returned there for further studies after attending the University of Illinois and graduating from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Her first New York exhibit was in 1969. Blitt’s sculptures up to sixty feet in height have been permanently installed and exhibited along with her drawings and paintings, in museums, galleries and public places in Australia, Germany, Israel, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States. Her films have been shown in numerous festivals, with Caught in Paint, a six minute documentary featuring David Parsons and the Parsons Dance Company being the big winner with invitations from over 100 festivals and the recipient of 14 awards.
Blitt’s work celebrates her love of nature, music, dance and the spontaneous flow of movement captured in the drawn gesture. Her drawings and paintings, which sometime become sculpture, are often created with two hands at once. She says, “when those lines come from my hands…I feel like I am dancing.”
Blitt takes great pleasure in sharing her work through exhibitions, donations to non-profit organizations and giving workshops which inspire people to “let their hands dance on paper.” She also has enjoyed working with dancers to give them the freedom to improvise dance and extend their dance onto paper. Her workshop with dancers at the University of Florida has become a film entitled Visual Rhythms. The Rita Blitt Foundation has been formed to further these projects.
Blitt feels that her most significant contribution, beyond family, has been the her phrase “Kindness is Contagious…Catch it” which has led to the creation of Kindness programs affecting the lives of thousands all over the world. Kindness activities for schools and communities are under the auspices of STOP Violence, www.stop-violence.org, a program of Synergy Services. Click here to download a free Kindness poster, a print of a Blitt painting.
Blitt has studios in California, Colorado and Kansas.
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