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| Connett was born May 25, 1935 in Mulvane, Kansas. Earned a BS in art education from Kansas State Teachers College in 1953, a MA from Wichita State Univ. in 1964, and studied at the American Univ. in Mexico and in Florence, Italy. Pupil of Mary Kretsinger and Dorothy MacCray. Taught in the Wichita public schools from 1957-64, at the Wichita Art Museum from 1969-70, at Friends Univ. starting in 1964, and at Hutchinson Community College.
Member: Artist Guild of Wichita.
Exhibitions: Mulvane Gallery, 1964; Nebraska Wesleyan Univ., 1966; Spiva Art Center,
1970. Collections: Wichita Art Museum; Halstead Art Assoc.; Nebraska Wesleyan Univ.,
Western New Mexico State Univ.
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SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
AskART, www.askart.com, accessed Oct. 12, 2007; Topeka Public Library. Kansas Artists List. (Mar. 11, 1988).; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936-1973, 1976, 1980; Wichita Art Museum’s Library Artists’ Files. | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
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