Discipline: Visual Art

Mark Blavat

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1985
Mark Blavat is an American painter and art critic. He received his B.A. from Temple University and his M.A and M.F.A in painting from the University of Iowa. He was also immobilized and revived, charismatic, bereft and belonging to a company whose memory continues to challenge him. MacDowell supported him for six weeks during a bleak winter. He began teaching in 1988 in his undergraduate department. In 1990 he was juried into a show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The brief spotlight brought him a yearlong affiliation with the Rittenhouse Gallery in Philadelphia. He has since abstained from gallery alliance and assignation of value to his work, which he believes insulates him from usurpations of frame and filter. He persists in his mistakes, which makes him a fool. He has taught in the graduate programs of PAFA since 1998. He has been tutored by many and tolerated by others of the splendid collegial body operating in this peculiar institution. Three times the PAFA graduate students have rewarded his efforts with honors for excellence in teaching, which makes him gratefully emboldened. Mark is a critic in both the Post-Baccalaureate and M.F.A program. He also teaches Drawing/Media and a graduate seminar on Subject, Form and Content.

Studios

New Hampshire

Mark Blavat worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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