This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Abstract printmaker and collagist, Betty Blayton-Taylor is also
commonly recognized as a lecturer. Blayton-Taylor was born in
Williamsburg, Virginia in 1937. She
attended Syracuse University in New York, were she graduated with
honors in1959, with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art. During the
summer of 1961 she took a course in educational psychology and art
education at the City College of New York. She studied sculpture
for two years at the Art Students League of New York City under Arnold
Prince, followed by three years with Minoria Nizuma at the Brooklyn
Museum School.
During her career as an artist, Blayton-Taylor also worked as an
adjunct professor for the City College of New York, and served as an
artist-in-residence at institutions such as Virginia State University
at Norfolk, Fisk University, Brown University, and Tugaloo College.
Blayton-Taylor assisted in founding the Children’s Art Carnival for the
Museum of Modern Art children’s visual arts outreach program in
1968. She became the executive director of the program one year
later when it moved to Harlem in 1969. A founding member of the
Studio Museum of Harlem, New York in 1965, she has been a member of
board of Arts and Business Council in New York City, and a consultant
for the City of New York Board of Education.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries and universities in the United
States for more than thirty years. After traveling to Egypt in
1988 she developed a profound interest in heritage as an
African-African. As a result, she created a series of monotypes
which were displayed in 1990 in two solo exhibitions held by the Isabel
Neal Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
Blayton-Taylor is included in the permanent collections belonging to
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Studio Museum of Harlem.
In the United States and Europe, she has been featured in radio,
television documentaries, and the documentary film based on five
African-African artists entitled, “Five.”
Submitted by Jenna Wuensche, Researcher
Source: Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
|
| ** If you discover credit omissions or have additional information to add, please let us know at registrar@AskART.com. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|