School of Art Newsletter Fall 07 vol. 2 issue 1

NOW: Professor Sheila Pitt

Associate Professor of 2D, Sheila Pitt, traveled to The National Sporting Library in Middleburg, VA, where she conducted research on 16th and 17th-century equestrian training and anatomy. Previous studies in anatomy, coupled with her life-long interest in classical dressage riding, has produced a series of woodcut intaglio prints that refer to her research in training and anatomy as seen through German, Italian, French, and English training and anatomic manuals.

Pitt won a cash award for her entry in the Springfield Art Museum Print Biennial, Prints 2007, in Springfield, MO and also won this year’s Juror’s Purchase Prize at the Ink & Clay competition at California State Polytechnic Institute in Pomona, CA. In her entries for the San Diego Art Institute International Award Exhibition, Pitt was one of only two artists who had more than one piece exhibited. Pitt describes the event as a tremendous experience where she was able to not only discuss her work with juror and internationally distinguished art historian, Norman Bryson, but also enjoyed the opportunity to see her work through his eyes.