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2011 |
The Carter Art Center Gallery at MCC–Penn Valley, Kansas City MO Discovering and Sharing Joy Part II: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture and Film October 4 – November 7 |
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| Cultural Arts Ctr., Metropolitan Comm. College, Longview, Lee’s Summit Discovering and Sharing Joy: Part I: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture and Film October 1 – November 12 |
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| Gallery of Art & Design, Univ. of Central Missouri, Warrensburg Fear of War, Courage to Hope … While Dancing A traveling exhibition of drawings, paintings, sculpture and film. August 19 – September 24 |
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| Rita Blitt’s 12-minute film blur (2010), based on Lansing McLoskey's music, screened at the American Composers’ Alliance (ACA) New Music Festival, NYC June 17 |
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| World Premiere – “Collaborating with the Past” a film by Rita Blitt San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum May 1 |
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2010 |
Green+Blue Gallery 57 Mountain Road, off Route 100, Stowe, VT Gallery Owner is Mia Feroleto, 802-253-679 October 2 – November 15 |
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| Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS Featuring: Fear of War, Courage to Hope … While Dancing – Paintings and Sculpture September 10 – October 9 |
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| UMKC Alumnus Spotlight Award | |||
| La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA, March 1-30 | |||
2009 |
Speaker - High Dance Conference, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA | ||
| Premier of Blur, 12 minute film – Blitt Drawings with music by Lansing McLoskey, Aspen composer's conference, Aspen, CA, July, 2009 | |||
2007 |
Keynote speaker – Texas Art Educators Association (TAEA) Conference, Galveston, TX | ||
2006 |
Installation of paintings – Heart Center, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS | ||
2005 |
Producer – “Rita Blitt and Friends” Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) Gala, New York, NY | ||
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2010 |
La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA, March 1-30 | ||
2009 |
547 Arts Center Greensburg, KS September through October, 2009 Featuring: Fear of War, courage to Hope …While Dancing – Paintings and Sculpture |
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| Passionate Gestures of Rita Blitt Soka University of America Founders Hall Art Gallery Aliso Viejo (near Laguna Beach), CA September 1, 2009 – January 7, 2010 |
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| Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut (near LA), CA March 12 – April 9 Featuring: Fear of War, Courage to Hope … While Dancing – Paintings and Sculpture |
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| Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA February 5 – March 28 Featuring: Sacred Moments – Wall Sculptures |
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| College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA January 21 – February 6 Featuring: Fear of War, Courage to Hope … While Dancing – Paintings and Sculpture |
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| Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, Santa Barbara, CA Wednesday, January 21 Featuring: Passionate Gestures on Canvas and Film |
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2008 |
Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, April, 2008 | ||
2007 |
Thornhill Gallery – Avila University, Kansas City, MO | ||
2006 |
Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH, Sept. 22 - Dec. 1 | ||
| Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR | |||
| Jacquelyn Casey Hudgens Museum and Art Center, Duluth, GA | |||
| Marion Meyer Contemporary Art Gallery, Laguna, CA | |||
| Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH | |||
| Ezair Gallery, South Hampton, and New York City, NY | |||
2005 |
Hallar Gallery, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA | |||
2004 |
4 Star Gallery, Indianapolis, IN | ||
2003 |
Michelson Museum, Marshall, TX | ||
| Carter Center, Penn Valley College, Kansas City, MO | |||
| Texas A&M, College Station, TX | |||
| Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV | |||
2001 |
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, “Rita Blitt: The Passionate Gesture,” April 20 - May 26 | ||
2000 |
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | ||
1998 |
City Center, New York, NY | ||
1997 |
Marine’s Memorial Theater, San Francisco, CA | ||
1996 |
Muchnik Gallery, Atchison, KS, Aug. 3-31 | ||
1995 |
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 | |||
| Baker University, Baldwin, KS | |||
1994 |
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 | |||
| The Kennedy Museum of American Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH | |||
| Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MO | |||
| The Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO | |||
1992 |
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 | |||
1991 |
Central Exchange, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO | |||
| National Museum, Singapore | |||
1990 |
Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2-29 | ||
| Mark Twain Gallery, Mark Twain Bank, Kansas City, MO, Jan. 24-March 17 | |||
1989 |
Mark Twain Gallery, Mark Twain Bank, Ladue, MO, Oct. 18-Nov. 30 | ||
| Bet Shmuel, Jerusalem, Israel | |||
| Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel | |||
1987 |
Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, IL, June 12-July 20 | ||
| Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Jan. 9-Feb. 7 | |||
1985 |
Central Exchange, Kansas City, MO, September | ||
1984 |
Jewish Community Center Gallery, Omaha, NE, “dancing hands: Visual Arts of Rita Blitt,” May13-June 10 | ||
| Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO, Feb. 19-26 | |||
1979 |
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO | ||
| Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, Jan. 14-Feb. 4 | |||
1978 |
Tumbling Waters Museum of Flags, Montgomery, AL, May 19-Aug. 23 | ||
| Gargoyle Gallery, Aspen, CO | |||
1977 |
Harkness Foundation of Dance, New York, NY, Dec. 6-17 | ||
| Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO, March 15-April 1 | |||
1974 |
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS | ||
| Ängerer Gallery, Kansas City, MO | |||
1969 |
Spectrum Gallery, New York, NY, “Orblitts,” March 11-29 | ||
1967 |
Halls on the Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, MO, “Canvas in Space: Rita Blitt,” Aug. 25-Sept. 15 | ||
1965 |
Unitarian Gallery, Kansas City, MO | ||
1959 |
Scott's Frames and Gallery, Kansas City, MO | ||
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2009 |
James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA April 18 – May 16 |
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2006 |
Ezair Gallery, Southampton, NY, July 1 - 31 | ||
| Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna, CA | |||
2005 |
Ezair Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 1-31 | ||
| Thomas Center Galleries, Gainesville, FL | |||
| Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy (sculpture award) | |||
2003 |
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY | ||
2002 |
Santa Fe Ballet, Aspen, CO, July 1-31 | ||
2001 |
Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna, CA | ||
| Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at the Aspen District Theater, Aspen CO | |||
1999 |
Málaga, Spain, “Americans in Spain,” Sept. 8-Oct. 16 | ||
1998 |
The Art Source, Indianapolis, IN, April 6-June 19 | ||
1997 |
Dance Aspen, Aspen, CO, July | ||
1995 |
Obere Galerie, Berlin, Germany | ||
| D.I.N. Deutsches’ Institut, Berlin, Germany | |||
| National Museum of Women and the Arts, Beijing, China, “Global Focus” | |||
| Kulturamt Berline-Treptow, Berlin, Germany | |||
1991 |
Goldman Kraft Gallery, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2-29 | ||
1990 |
Andrea Ross Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, July 19-Aug. 18 | ||
1988 |
Battle Creek Art Center, Battle Creek, MI | ||
| Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, “Color & Light: Works in Pastel and Glass,” Jan. 8-Feb. 27 | |||
1987 |
Kansas Public Library, Kansas City, KS | ||
| Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, Nov. 18-Dec. 31 | |||
1986 |
Project America, New York, NY | ||
1984 |
Joanne Lyons Gallery, Aspen, CO | ||
| Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE, Jan. 18-Feb. 2 | |||
1983 |
Streker Gallery, Manhattan, KS | ||
| Cooke Gallery, Sunset Hill School, Kansas City, MO, Oct. 7-Nov. 4 | |||
1982 |
Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, April 17-June 13 | ||
| Art & Design Gallery, New York, NY | |||
1981 |
Tallgrass Fine Arts Gallery, Overland Park, KS, June | ||
| Tallgrass Fine Arts Gallery, Kansas City, MO, June | |||
| Governor's Mansion, Topeka, KS | |||
1980 |
Tall Grass Fine Arts Gallery, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY | |||
1979 |
Carrefour Gallery, New York, NY | ||
| Putney Gallery, Aspen, CO | |||
| Gargoyle Gallery, Aspen, CO, Nov. 25-Jan. 5 | |||
1978 |
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, Oct. 13-Nov. 12 | ||
1977 |
Cyvia Gallery, New Haven, CT, Oct. 9-Nov. 5 | ||
1976 |
Conry Gallery, Kansas City, MO | ||
1975 |
Doug Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Battle Creek Civic Art Center, Battle Creek, MI | |||
1972 |
Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE | ||
1969 |
Junior League Exhibit, Macy’s, Kansas City, MO | ||
1967 |
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO | ||
| John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL | |||
1964 |
Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS | ||
1963 |
Jewish Community Center, Kansas City, MO | ||
1959 |
Kansas City Museum, Kansas City, MO | ||
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2009 |
Blur – Composed by Lansing McLoskey Aspen Composer’s Conference, July, 2009 |
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2005 |
“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 | |||
2003 |
“Caught in Paint,” Rita Blitt, Lois Greenfield, David Parsons and Parson Dance Co., 6 minute video | ||
2002 |
"Dancing Hands" workshop at the Berkeley/Richmond Jewish Community Center in Berkeley, CA, Oct. 13 - Dec. 31 | ||
1996 |
“The Dance Technology Project 1996,” Atlanta Ballet, Georgia Institute of Technology and The Parsons Dance Company, Atlanta, GA | ||
1995 |
St. Joseph Ballet, University of California at Irvine, CA | ||
| New Ear Concert, St. Mary’s Church, Kansas City, MO | |||
1994 |
“Runes” (inspired by Blitt drawings), Buglisi-Forman Dance Company, Lincoln Center, New York, NY | ||
1987 |
“Dream Against Day,” The Parsons Dance Company, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY | ||
1986 |
Yehuda Hanani, cellist, recorded music for Chai sculpture, B’nai Jehudah Temple, Kansas City, MO | ||
1985 |
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 | |||
1984 |
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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2009 |
Mt. San Antonio Community College, Walnut, CA | ||
2008 |
University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO | ||
2007 |
Time Arrow, Laguna Beach, CA | ||
| Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, MO | |||
2006 |
Kansas University Medical/Heart Center, Kansas City, KS | ||
2005 |
Lewis and Shirley White Theatre, Overland Park, KS | ||
2004 |
Plaza Library, Kansas City, MO | ||
2003 |
White Recital Hall, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Research Mental Health Services Building, Lees Summit, MO | |||
| Temple B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, MO | |||
| Black Box VII at the Carter Center, Penn Valley College, Kansas City, MO | |||
2001 |
Gold Coast Regional Art Center Sculpture Park, Australia | ||
2000 |
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | ||
| Compass Corporate Centre, Overland Park, KS | |||
1998 |
Tokyo Bay Hilton Hotel, Shiba, Japan | ||
1996 |
Taliaferro Sculpture Garden, Prairie Village, KS | ||
1994 |
Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, MO | ||
1993 |
Sherman Oaks Medical Center, Sherman Oaks, CA | ||
| Oak Park Mall, Overland Park, KS | |||
1990 |
Benjamin Plaza, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Mission Center Mall, Mission, KS | |||
1989 |
Lewis Rice & Fingersh, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Mission Center Mall, Mission, KS | |||
1988 |
Jewish Community Campus, Overland Park, KS | ||
| Shalom Plaza, Kansas City, MO | |||
1987 |
Hillcrest Bank Building, Kansas City, MO | ||
1986 |
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 | |||
1985 |
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 | |||
1984 |
Embassy Suites Hotel, Overland Park, KS | ||
| The Renaissance I, Overland Park, KS | |||
| Loehmann’s Plaza, Miami, FL | |||
1983 |
Loehmann’s Plaza, Orlando, FL | ||
| Indian Springs Shopping Center, Kansas City, KS | |||
| State Line Building, Leawood, KS | |||
1982 |
Rockaway Office Park, Rockaway, NJ | ||
1980 |
Bannister Mall, Kansas City, MO | ||
1979 |
Leavenworth Plaza Shopping Center, Leavenworth, KS | ||
1978 |
Hickory Point Mall, Forsyth, IL | ||
| Rockaway Townsquare, Rockaway, NJ | |||
1977 |
Rockaway Townsquare, Rockaway, NJ | ||
1975 |
Oak Park Mall, Overland Park, KS | ||
| Town East Mall, Wichita, KS | |||
1974 |
City Hall, Kansas City, KS | ||
| Jefferson Square Mall, Joliet, IL | |||
| Golden Ring Mall, Baltimore, MD | |||
1973 |
Eastland Mall, Bloomington, IL | ||
1971 |
Indian Springs Shopping Center, Kansas City, KS | ||
1969 |
Pittsburg Mall, Pittsburg, KS | ||
1967 |
Leavenworth Plaza Shopping Center, Leavenworth, KS | ||
1966 |
East Hills Mall, St. Joseph, MO | ||
1965 |
Briarwood Elementary School, Prairie Village, KS | ||
1963 |
Johnson County Mental Health Center, | ||
| Shawnee Mission, KS | |||
1957 |
Dr. Sidney Pakula, Kansas City, MO | ||
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2008 |
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS | |||
| Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV | |||
2001 |
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO | ||
| John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, MA | |||
| Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV | |||
| Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL | |||
| Kansas City Children’s Museum, Kansas City, MO | |||
| Kennedy Museum of American Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH | |||
| National Museum, Singapore | |||
| Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | |||
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Federal Reserve Bank, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Stowers Institute, Kansas City, MO | |||
| Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, MO | |||
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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 City, 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, Oslo, 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, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS | |||
| Rollo May, San Francisco, CA | |||
| Dr. Ron McCoy, Indonesia | |||
| Menorah Medical Center, Overland Park, KS | |||
| Former Ambassador to Great Britain and Mrs. Charles Price II, Kansas City, MO | |||
| Josef Rotblat, England | |||
| St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO | |||
| Major Britt Theorin, Sweden | |||
| Trinity Lutheran Hospital, Kansas City, MO | |||
| University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO | |||
| The Women's Foundation, Kansas City, MO | |||
| YMCA, Prairie Village, KS | |||
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2009 |
High Dance Conference, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA | ||
2007 |
“Dancing Hands”, Texas Art Educators Association (TAEA) Conference, Galveston, TX | ||
2005 |
“Dancing Hands for Dancers”, University of Florida, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, FL | ||
2003 |
“Dancing Hands for Dancers”, Texas A & M, College Station, TX | ||
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2009 |
Blur Blitt Drawings with music by Lansing McLoskey | ||
2008 |
Cannes Film Festival – showing of 6-minute documentary “Caught in Paint” by Moving Pictures Magazine. This film has been invited to over 115 Film Festivals, winning 14 awards. | ||
2006 |
“Visual Rhythms”, (“Dancing Hands for Dancers”), 12 minutes University of Florida, Dance Workshop, Public Television, Gainesville, FL | ||
2005 |
“Caught in Nature”, Rita Blitt, Stuart Huck, photographer; Yehuda Hanani, cellist, 8 minutes | ||
2003 |
“Caught in Paint”, Rita Blitt, painter; Lois Greenfield, photographer; David Parsons choreographer and Parsons Dance Company, 6 minutes | ||
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2000 |
Rita Blitt: The Passionate Gesture, Willoughby Design, RAM/Brandeis publications, ISBN 0-9630785-8-5 | ||
1991 |
Rita Blitt Reaching Out From Within, David Knaus, essay National Museum, Singapore, ISBN 9971-917-335 | ||
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2010 |
UMKC Alumnus Spotlight Award | ||
2007-2005 |
Fourteen Awards for documentary film. “Caught in Paint” | ||
2005 |
Award in Sculpture, Florence Biennale: “Sensuously Stacked Steel” | ||
2002 |
Omni Award: www.ritablitt.com | ||
2001 |
How International Design: Rita Blitt: The Passionate Gesture | ||
1987 |
National Sculpture Competition, Midwest Women’s Center, Chicago, IL | ||