Lisa weinblatt

Multidisciplinary Artist

Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt, a native New Yorker, received her M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She earned her B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Art Department Honors, at Queens College/CUNY.

Lisa Has been awarded six national Artist-In-Residence Scholarships and received a New York City Artist Corp Grant, September, 2021. She is also the recipient of NYC Public Arts Grants and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Weinblatt’s painting series SCHOOL LUNCH has been exhibited in over 40 solo exhibitions, including the NYC Armory Show, with recent solo exhibitions at Waterworks Art Center/ Museum, NC, Karpeles Museum, NY, Morris Graves Museum, CA, Woodstock Museum, NY, Delaplaine Art Center, MD, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, PA, and The Judy Black Memorial Gallery /Gardens, CT. Weinblatt’s recent solo exhibitions include Central Piedmont College, Charlotte, NC, 1/10-12/15/22, Chesapeake art Center, MD 12/15/22 – 2/15/23, Oxford Art Center, PA, 9/2023 and Goggleworks Art Center, Reading, PA, 10/11/ 2023.

For inquiries and to explore more of Weinblatt’s work, visit their website.

SCHOOL LUNCH

Selections from SCHOOL LUNCH is currently published in ‘New American Paintings’, Northeast issue, juried by Amy Sherald. SCHOOL LUNCH was published in the Spring 2024 issue of ‘WELTER’, University of Baltimore, MD and is currently published in “The Pasticheur” journal of Dickinson College, PA, 1/2025.

SCHOOL LUNCH is a visual essay of contemporary student life created by drawing on-site, inn real educational settings. Current social issues and their emotional attitudes are shared experience of school lunch. SCHOOL LUNCH underlines perceptions which affirm cultural identity, brings together ideas espousing societal concerns and encourages a belief in the quality of human spirit.

Selections of the SCHOOL LUNCH have been published in numerous College and University journals including - Lunch Ticket, Antioch College, CA , Downtown Brooklyn, Long Island University, NYC.

SCHOOL LUNCH 20 was digitally displayed on a billboard in Times Square, NYC.

Stephanie H. Plunkett, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Norman Rockwell Museum, MA comments “Weinblatt’s ability to transform specific experiences into powerful images which communicate to a broad audience is nothing short of extraordinary…Paintings that address such important issues as cultural identity and the challenges inherent in interpersonal experiences… riveting images implicit of the energy and tensions of human experience.”

Art


“School

Lunch 11”

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