Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt ‘s SCHOOL LUNCH series on display at the Woodbury Public Library
The Woodbury Public Library is delighted to share Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt ‘s series SCHOOL LUNCH in the Library’s Gallery Space in April.
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 and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Public Art Grant. She is the recipient of NYC Public Arts Grants and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
SCHOOL LUNCH is a visual essay of contemporary student life created by drawing on-site, in 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.
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 solo exhibitions include Central Piedmont College, Charlotte, NC, Chesapeake Art Center, MD, Oxford Art Center, PA, 9/2023 and Goggleworks Art Center, Reading, PA. Selections from SCHOOL LUNCH is currently published in ‘New American Paintings’, Northeast issue, juried by Amy Sherald. SCHOOL LUNCH was published in the Fall ’23 issue of ‘WELTER’, University of Baltimore, MD and is currently published in “The Pasticheur” journal of Dickinson College, PA.
SCHOOL LUNCH 20 was digitally displayed on a billboard in Times Square, NYC. The exhibit is open during regular library hours.