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| Abstract painter, print maker and art educator Joan Bassaro taught at the Stamford Museum and conducted classes in drawing and painting at the Stamford Adult Education.
Education:
1954 Graduated Stamford High School
1957 Skowhegan School pf Painting and Sculpture
1958 B.F. A. Pratt Institute
1961 M.F.A. University of Illinois
1962 N.Y. U. Extension Course, Stamford. Universita per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy
1962-63 Academia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy
1954 University of Bridgeport
Awards:
1954-58 Dean's Scholarship to Pratt Institute
1955 and 1956 Pratt Institute Award Summer Show
1957 Skowhegan School Summer Show. Student award for Fresco
Pratt Institute Award. Summer Show
Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Scholarship, Pratt Contemporaries Graphic Center
Mademoiselle Award for Painting in American Colleges
Graphics Prize, Printmaking, Pratt Institute
1958 Arts for Youth, Thomas E. Saxe Award, Stamford
1959 Fellow in Art, University of Illinois
1960 Assistant ship, Dept. Art History, University of Illinois
First Award, Prints
2nd Award, Painting, Young Fairfield County Artists
1961 First Award in above show
1962 Fulbright Grant
Italian Government Award
1963 Honorable Mention, New Canaan Art Show
Honorable Mention, Print makers Annual, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Selected Solo Shows:
1949 Collection Paintings and Drawings, Springdale Library, Stamford
1959 Stamford Museum, Painitngs, Drawings and Prints
1961 Stamford Museum, Encaustic and Prints
1964 Gallery, New Canaan Library
1965 Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Stamford, sponsored by Stamford Museum
1966 Rive Gauche Gallery, Darien
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1955-57 Pratt Institute Summer Shows
1957 Pratt Student Work, Y.M.H.A. Galleries, New York City
Skowhegan School, Summer Show
1958 Exchange Exhibition, Stuttgart Free Academy, Germany
Art from Seniors in American Colleges, St. Louis Missouri
Brooklyn and Long Island Artists, Brooklyn Museum
1959 3rd National Print Exhibition, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan
1960 2nd National Print Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, California
International Drawing Competition, State University of Education, Potsdam, New York
12th Annual National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum
1961 Bay Printmakers' Society, 6th National Exhibition, Seattle Washington and Portland, Oregon
Northwest Printmakers' 32nd International Exhibition Seattle and Portland
Young Printmakers, University of Wyoming
Nine Graduates, Gallery of the University of Illinois, Urbana
Dedication Exhibition, Krannert Museum, Urbana, Illinois
1962 4th National Exhibition of Prints, Silvermine Guild
Young Artists of Fairfield, new Canaan Library Gallery
1963 Fulbright Artists in Italy, George Lester Gallery, Rome
Fulbright Artists, U.S.I.S Galleries, Florence, Italy
Paintings of Recent Graduates, Krannert art Museum
1964 Society of Washington Printmakers Annual, Smithsonian Institute Washington, D.C.
6th National Print Exhibition, Silvermine Guild
Exhibition of Paintings from the University of Illinois Collection, Bloomington, Illinois
Society of Boston Printmakers Annual, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Exhibition from Permanent Collection of Stamford Museum
Rive Gauche Gallery, Darien
Wesleyan Potter & Print Show, Middletown, Connecticut
Exhibition of Ceramics, University of Bridgeport
Graphics and International Prints, Slater Museum, Norwich, Connecticut
1965 Black & White in Art, Rive Gauche Gallery, Darien
Prints, Darien Library Gallery
Paintings Today, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Liturgical Art at Easter, Maryknoll Seminary, New York
Brookfield Craft Fair, Brookfield Connecticut
The Figure, Rive Gauche Gallery, Darien
Faculty Exhibition Brookfield Craft Center
Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Everson Museum, Syracuse New York
Contemporary Crafts, Stamford Museum
Painting, Sculpture and Prints, Pace College, Pleasantville, N.Y.
Opening Fall Exhibition, Rive Gauche Gallery
Exhibition of Prints, Rochester Museum, Rochester, New York
Contemporary Prints, Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg
Exhibition Loan Prints, Dartmouth College Museum
Drawings, Unitarian Universalist Society, Stamford
Bush-Holley House, Cos Cob, Connecticut
Sources:
From a brochure, Rive Gauche Gallery
Information provided by Jeff Roberts.
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