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Thornhill Gallery, Avila College, Kansas City, MO, Mar. 1
Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, Ohio, Sept. 22 - Dec. 1
Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Museum and Art Center, Duluth, GA, Sept. 12 - Jan. 12
Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR, May 30 - Aug. 5
Hallar Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA
4 Star Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Texas A&M, College Station, TX
Michelson Museum, Marshall, TX
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Carter Center, Penn Valley College, Kansas City, MO
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, “Rita Blitt: The Passionate Gesture,” April 20 - May 26
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, “Rita Blitt: The Passionate Gesture,” Nov. 19, 1999-Feb. 15, 2000
City Center, New York, NY
Marine’s Memorial Theater, San Francisco, CA
Muchnik Gallery, Atchison, KS, Aug. 3-31
Central Exchange, Kansas City, MO, Nov. 20-Jan. 5, 1996
Holt Russell Gallery, Baker University, Baldwin, KS, Sept. 26-Oct. 22
I Space Gallery, sponsored by the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, March 17-April 15
Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI, “Rough Seas,” Oct. 13-Nov. 10
The Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH, “Rita Blitt in Retrospect,” Oct. 7-Nov. 6
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, March 16-27
La Quinta Sculpture Park, La Quinta, CA, Jan. 29-Feb. 28
Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, Sept. 20-Oct. 25
Mackey Gallery, Denver, CO, July 26-Sept. 15
The Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, “Rita Blitt: Outdoor Sculpture and Drawings,” June 14-Aug. 31
Jewish Community Center, Overland Park, KS, “Hallelujah,” (with Yehuda Hanani concert), May 2-June 5
Packers Bank and Trust, Omaha, NE, March
Central Exchange, Kansas City, MO
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO, “Reaching Out from Within: The Art of Rita Blitt,” July 17-Aug. 30
National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore, “Reaching Out From Within: An Exhibition of Drawings and Sculpture by Rita Blitt,” April 16-28
Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2-29
Mark Twain Gallery, Mark Twain Bank, Kansas City, MO, Jan. 24-March 17
Mark Twain Gallery, Mark Twain Bank, Ladue, MO, Oct. 18-Nov. 30
The Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel, February
Beit Shmuel Centre, Jerusalem, Israel, February
Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, IL, June 12-July 20
Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Jan. 9-Feb. 7
Central Exchange, Kansas City, MO, September
Jewish Community Center Gallery, Omaha, NE, “dancing hands: Visual Arts of Rita Blitt,” May13-June 10
Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO, Feb. 19-26
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, Jan. 14-Feb. 4
Tumbling Waters Museum of Flags, Montgomery, AL, May 19-Aug. 23
Gargoyle Gallery, Aspen, CO
Harkness Foundation of Dance, New York, NY, Dec. 6-17
Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO, March 15-April 1
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Ängerer Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Spectrum Gallery, New York, NY, “Orblitts,” March 11-29
Halls on the Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, MO, “Canvas in Space: Rita Blitt,” Aug. 25-Sept. 15
Unitarian Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Scott's Frames and Gallery, Kansas City, MO
   
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Ezair Gallery, Southampton, New York, July 1 - 31
Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna, CA
Florence Biennale Invitational Exhibit, Florence, Italy, Dec. 3-12
"Visual Rhythms: Art Work Inspired by Music," Thomas Center Main Gallery, Gainesville, FL, Oct. 29 - Dec. 11
Ezair Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 1-31
"Of Myth and Metaphor Arabesque and Line," Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna, CA
Málaga, Spain, “Americans in Spain,” Sept. 8-Oct. 16
The Art Source, Indianapolis, IN, April 6-June 19
Dance Aspen, Aspen, CO, July
Obere Galerie, Berlin, Germany
D.I.N. Deutsches’ Institut, Berlin, Germany
National Museum of Women and the Arts, Beijing, China, “Global Focus”
Goldman Kraft Gallery, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2-29
Andrea Ross Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, July 19-Aug. 18
Battle Creek Art Center, Battle Creek, MI
Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, “Color & Light: Works in Pastel and Glass,” Jan. 8-Feb. 27
Kansas Public Library, Kansas City, KS
Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, Nov. 18-Dec. 31
Project America, New York, NY
Joanne Lyons Gallery, Aspen, CO
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE, Jan. 18-Feb. 2
Streker Gallery, Manhattan, KS
Cooke Gallery, Sunset Hill School, Kansas City, MO, Oct. 7-Nov. 4
Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, April 17-June 13
Art & Design Gallery, New York, NY
Tallgrass Fine Arts Gallery, Overland Park, KS, June
Tallgrass Fine Arts Gallery, Kansas City, MO, June
Governor's Mansion, Topeka, KS
Tall Grass Fine Arts Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY
Carrefour Gallery, New York, NY
Putney Gallery, Aspen, CO
Gargoyle Gallery, Aspen, CO, Nov. 25-Jan. 5
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, Oct. 13-Nov. 12
Cyvia Gallery, New Haven, CT, Oct. 9-Nov. 5
Conry Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Doug Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Battle Creek Civic Art Center, Battle Creek, MI
Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Junior League Exhibit, Macy’s, Kansas City, MO
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS
Jewish Community Center, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Museum, Kansas City, MO
   
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Lewis and Shirley White Theater in Overland Park, KS
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Plaza Library, Kansas City, MO
White Recital Hall, UMKC, Kansas City, MO
Research Mental Health Services Building, Lees Summit, MO
Temple B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, MO
Gold Coast Regional Art Center, Surfer's Paradise, Australia
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Compass Corporate Centre, Overland Park, KS
Hilton Tokyo Bay, Bay Lounge, Shiba, Japan
Taliaferro Sculpture Garden, Prairie Village, KS
Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, MO
Sherman Oaks Medical Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Oak Park Mall, Overland Park, KS
Benjamin Plaza, Kansas City, MO
Mission Center Mall, Mission, KS
Lewis Rice & Fingersh, Kansas City, MO
Mission Center Mall, Mission, KS
Jewish Community Campus, Overland Park, KS
Shalom Plaza, Kansas City, MO
Hillcrest Bank Building, Kansas City, MO
Sculpture and Endowment Alcove, B’nai Jehudah Temple, Kansas City, MO
Town Pavilion, Kansas City, MO
The Renaissance II, Overland Park, KS
Loehmann’s Plaza, Davies, FL
Loehmann’s Plaza, Lake Grove, NY
Loehmann’s Plaza, Babylon, NY, later moved to a Long Island, NY, public golf course
Loehmann’s Plaza, St. Louis, MO
Embassy Suites Hotel, Overland Park, KS
The Renaissance I, Overland Park, KS
Loehmann’s Plaza, Miami, FL
Loehmann’s Plaza, Orlando, FL
Indian Springs Shopping Center, Kansas City, KS
State Line Building, Leawood, KS
Rockaway Office Park, Rockaway, NJ
Bannister Mall, Kansas City, MO
Leavenworth Plaza Shopping Center, Leavenworth, KS
Hickory Point Mall, Forsyth, IL
Rockaway Townsquare, Rockaway, NJ
Rockaway Townsquare, Rockaway, NJ
Oak Park Mall, Overland Park, KS
Town East Mall, Wichita, KS
City Hall, Kansas City, KS
Jefferson Square Mall, Joliet, IL
Golden Ring Mall, Baltimore, MD
Eastland Mall, Bloomington, IL
Indian Springs Shopping Center, Kansas City, KS
Pittsburg Mall, Pittsburg, KS
Leavenworth Plaza Shopping Center, Leavenworth, KS
East Hills Mall, St. Joseph, MO
Briarwood Elementary School, Prairie Village, KS
Johnson County Mental Health Center,
Shawnee Mission, KS
Dr. Sidney Pakula, Kansas City, MO
   
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“Rita Blitt and Friends (Collette Inez, poet, Yehuda Hanani, cellist, Jason McDole, dancer, Michael Udow, composer/percussionist)” CLAL Gala, New York City, NY, Nov. 3
Workshop with Dancers, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Caught in Paint,” Rita Blitt, Lois Greenfield, David Parsons and Parson Dance Co., 6 minute video
"Dancing Hands" workshop at the Berkeley/Richmond Jewish Community Center in Berkeley, CA, Oct. 13 - Dec. 31
Santa Fe Ballet, Aspen, CO, July 1-31
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at the Aspen District Theater, Aspen CO
“The Dance Technology Project 1996,” Atlanta Ballet, Georgia Institute of Technology and The Parsons Dance Company, Atlanta, GA
St. Joseph Ballet, University of California at Irvine
New Ear Concert, St. Mary’s Church, Kansas City, MO
“Runes” (inspired by Blitt drawings), Buglisi-Forman Dance Company, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
“Dream Against Day,” The Parsons Dance Company, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
Yehuda Hanani, cellist, recorded music for Chai sculpture, B’nai Jehudah Temple, Kansas City, MO
Josh Breakstone, guitarist, composed music for sculpture Festivity, St. Louis, MO
Biaja Fran Solomon, singer, and Dennis Bernstein, poet, composed words and music for sculpture Kharma, Long Island, NY
John Ciardi, wrote poem given to KCUR, Kansas City, MO, for reproduction on limited edition Blitt print
Mario Lavista, composed music installed in sculpture, Orblitt: 1984, The Renaissance I, Overland Park, KS
Dr. Michael Udow, percussion professor, University of Michigan, composed music for dancing hands: Visual Arts of Rita Blitt
   
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Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, MA
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
Kansas City Children’s Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH
National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
   
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American Embassy, Barbados
American Express Headquarters, Salt Lake City, UT
The Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO
AT&T, Kansas City, MO
Baker University, Baldwin, KS
Bill Blass, New York, NY
Blue Ridge Insurance Corporation, Simbsbury, CT
Center for Effective Living, Singapore
Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Haifa Symphony, Haifa, Israel
Harkness Ballet Foundation, New York, NY
Hillcrest Banks, Greater Kansas City Area
Johan Jorgen Holst, Osla, Norway
I-LAN, Taiwan City Hall, Taiwan R.O.C.
Kansas City Parks and Recreation, Kansas City, MO
Lakemary Center, Paola, KS
Lied Center for Performing Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
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