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Ria Blaas



Ria Blaas
email: marieblaas.com
phone: 802/649/2205
(802) 649-2205

Sculpting

mainly in wood, but have worked in stone, bronze and clay

Painting

oil paintings, also acrylic, egg tempera, gouache and watercolor

Design

have designed large public sculptures for museums, the local Consumer Cooperative and sets for the Revels, designed and produced Upper Loveland Puppets

Exhibitions

2016   

"Grounded" Kings Farm Woodstock Vt.

2015 Sculpture Fest Woodstock Vt. "Vessel"
2014 "In Grain at the Fleming Museum in Burlington VT Contemporary work in Wood.
2013 "Unless" at the Flynn Dog in Burlington VT Group exhibit :Susan Smereka ,Lisa Kippen ,Ria Blaas
2012 Installation of large Head in front Of Vermont Arts Council Montpelier Vt
2011 exhibit at "Exposed" in Stowe Vt. Award of merit
2011 installation of large Head at sculpture garden of the Vermont Arts Council
2008 exhibition sculptures  Aidron Duckworth Museum Meriden, New Hampshire
2008 exhibition Sculpturefest at Charlotte davenport Woodstock, Vermont
2008 Installation large wooden heads at "Path of Life"Garden in Windsor, Vermont.
2004 Rockland Art Center, West Nyack, NY
2004 Carving Studio, Rutland, VT
 

2003

Sculpture at Noble Horizons, Salisbury, CT

 

2003

Hood Museum of Art, Regional Selections,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

 

1999-2001

Mercer 55 Gallery, NYC

AVA Gallery & Art Center, Lebanon, NH

Charlotte Davenport’s Sculpting Fest, Woodstock, VT

Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington, DC

Tufts University Gallery, Boston MA

Cambridge Art Association, Boston, MA

 

1998-1990

DAS Gallery, Lebanon, NH

Washington Arts Association, CT

Vermont State Colleges in Lyndonville and Johnson

Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT

Gallery Micro, Oosterhout, The Netherlands

St. Lauren’s Church Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Montshire Museum, Hanover, NH

Residencies

Artist-in-Residence since 1987 through the Vermont Arts Council. Teaching sculpting and puppetry in Vermont: Fairfax, Shelburne, Montpelier, Brownsville, Fayston, Wallingford, Wilder, Windsor, Hanover, Carving Studio in Rutland, among many other Vermont towns and school systems.

Education

1978-80

Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Sculpture

 

1974-78

Academy of Fine Arts, Breda, The Netherlands. Sculpture

 

1968-73

Pedagogische Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands



      
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