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ARTISTS

Lynn Blackwell Denton
Garden for a Recovering World

Ms. Denton is a painter, installation artist and filmmaker whose passions include the creation of special environments in collaboration with communities. She studied at the Art Students' League and received an MFA in painting from the University Of Tennessee. She served a year's residency at the City Internationale des Arts in Paris. She has exhibited in Philadelphia at the Instititue of Contemporary Art and has had solo exhibitions at the Morris Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Nexus Gallery, and Gallery Siano. National shows have included a three-year traveling exhibition "Alice, And Look Who Else: Through the Looking Glass", organized by the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in New York. Her 16 mm film Clair-Obscur, describing a walk through the city, was screened at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema 2000, with the support of a Leeway Foundation Grant. In November 2001, her exhibition entitled "Walkabout: The City" at Gallery Siano included the premiere of her film City Light, subsidzed by funds from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has taught studio and art history courses at Beaver College, Pennsylvania State University, the University of the Arts and Moore College of Art and Design. Her work is supported by the Independence Foundation, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, and a residency from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Lynn was the lead artist on the Arts & Spirituality Center's Garden for a Recovering World project, in partnership with the North Philadelphia addiction-recovery community, New Jerusalem Now.

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