Lorna Ritz

I received a BFA from Pratt Institute, and and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, both in painting and sculpture, (welding steel, and casting in bronze). I taught at R.I. School of Design, Brown University, University of Minnesota, and Dartmouth College, “Guest Critic” at the Vermont Studio Center from 1991 – (upcoming 2013). I have taught painting, drawing and art history at Western New England University since 2004. Lectures: The Instituto de Belles Artes, (Medellin, Colombia); American University, (D.C. and in Italy); Humboldt State University, (CA); The New York Studio School, (2004 & 2012), and the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, (France). I have traveled through the U.S. Information Agency to Malta and Honduras to teach at the universities there, and my paintings have been exhibited through the Art-in-Embassies Program in D.C. in Africa and Guatemala, and presently Caracas, as well as at the Divinity Center at Yale University, the Bowery Gallery in NYC, Hillyer Gallery at Smith College, the Fine Arts Center’s ‘The Contemporary Art Museum” at the University of Massachusetts; the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, and the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, MA. I had a solo exhibition at the Huntington Museum in Windsor, Connecticut. My paintings were exhibited at “The Painting Center,” 2011, NYC, and at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2003, and were included in a group exhibition at The Washington Art Association in Washington Depot, CT., in 2003. I had a solo exhibition at The Oxbow Gallery in Northampton, MA. 2004, and 2007. I had a solo show at ‘The Creative Center’ in Chelsea, NYC, in June, 2006, and another solo at Gallery Anthony Curtis, Boston, Massachusetts , 2007, the ‘Firehouse Gallery’ in Newburyport, Massachusetts, (2008), the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery of Johnson State College, Vermont, and I will have a solo exhibition at the Hopper House in Nyack, New York in 2012. My paintings have recently been exhibited at the American Embassy in Caracas, 2011, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA.,2011, (curated by Theodore Stebbins,, Curator of American Art at Harvard University’s Fogg Museum), and at the Alan Klotz Gallery in NYC, 2011. My paintings are collected by Hale and Dorr Law Firm, (Boston), Bank of Boston, Johnson and Johnson, (N.J.), Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, (N.M.), the Burnham Institute, (CA.), and Veridex, (NJ), The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, The Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Childrens’ Hospital, Boston, Nataxis Global Asset Management, Boston, and Thompson Financial Management, Northampton, MA. I have three times received the Pollock-Krasner Grant Award, as well as a Kittredge Fund Grant from Harvard University. In 2001, I taught painting through the American University, (D.C.). Umbria, Italy. In April 2004 and again in 2012 I lectured at The New York Studio School, and taught a “Drawing Marathon” in 2004 and 2012, and have taught painting, drawing and art history at Western New England University since 2004, in Springfield, MA. I have been a “Guest Critic” at The Vermont Studio Center from 1991-upcoming 2013, and I was ‘cultural ambassador,’ (through the International Residency Program ‘at the Augusta Savage Gallery at U.Mass), to exchange ideas with artists in South Africa , 2007 and New Mexico through that same program in 2012; recipient of The Puffin Foundation Grant to work with prisoners, (teaching a painting workshop), a George Sugarman Foundation Grant Award, 2007, an Artists’ Fellowship, NYC, 2008 and 2011, and The Haven Foundation Award, Maine 2008 & 2011. Upcoming inclusion 2013 for the movie set “Dead Man Down,’ Director Niels Arden, starring Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Noomi Rapace