Don Stanley Bloom ( b. 1932-)

Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Bloom received a BFA in 1953 from the Massachusetts College of Art, attended Art Students League of New York on tuition scholarships from 1953-57 and in 1957 attended Instituto Allende, Mexico on full scholarship where he received his MFA.

His awards include a 1960 Guggenheim Fellowship and two Huntington Hartford Foundation Residence Fellowships, as well as numerous cash prizes in national, regional, and state exhibits.  He has received two national awards in editorial cartooning, a national second place award for "first day covers", and an award from Kean College, Jersey City State College.

He has had four solo shows at New York City Galleries as well as numerous local solo shows and group exhibitions.

His work in the permanent collections of Rutgers University, Farleigh Dickinson University, Montclair State College, Upsala College, Bloomfield College, East Brunswick Library, South River Library and Municipal Building, and International Museum of Cartoon Art as well as several hundred private collections.

His Biography has been in Who's Who In American Art since 1970.  He  illustrated Piscataway's Story, a two-volume workbook for children, authored by Margery Oleskie, as well as authoring and illustrating art books for the classroom.

He taught at Piscataway Public Schools until 1993 when he retired and served for many years as Art Department Chairman.  He was a regular instructor at Montclair Adult School, Morris County Art Association, Summit Art Center, Livingston Art Association, Irvington Art Association, Bloomfield College, and Trenton State College.

His most recent Exhibition was at the Alfa Gallery 2009 - “Inspired and informed by impressionists Seurat, Monet, and Bonnard, he paints his figures with an educated playfulness for evanescent light and color.  An artist that has abandoned black from the palette, Bloom renders each scene with a colorful luminosity that is more affected by subjective decisions than observant reactions.”

Other recent exhibitions and prizes include a Solo at Highland Park Library, a Solo at Old Bridge Library, and prizes in 2008 from the National Liberty Museum, in 2009 at the Franklin Township Clothesline Exhibition, and in the Middlesex County Senior Art Contest.