View the award-winning, 6 minute film “Caught in Paint”

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“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 paint, dance and photography, made dynamic photographs as she, too, was being filmed.

UMKC Alumni Spotlight Award
April 22, 2010

Interview with Rita Blitt

“Artist Rita Blitt, winner of this year’s Spotlight Award, was nominated by the Conservatory of Music and Dance to honor her work’s impact on UMKC, the region and the nation.”

PERSPECTIVES, Spring 2010, News magazine of the
University of Missouri-Kansas City