biography of SIST. MARY FLEURETTE BLAMEUSER (XX)

Birth place: Skokie, IL

Addresses: Wichita, KS

Profession: Painter, instructor

Studied: AIC; Univ. Colo.; Columbia Univ.; Clarke Col., BA; State Univ. Iowa, MA; Georgio Cini Found. fel., Venice, Italy, 1965; watercolor with Noel Quinn & Edgar Whitney.

Exhibited: Cath. Art Assn. Traveling Show, 1940; Contemporary, State Univ. Iowa, Iowa City, 1948; Wichita Women Artists, 1957; Kans. Watercolor Soc. Exhib., Wichita, 1970 & 1971; Kans. Cult. Arts Comn. Traveling Show, 1972; Wichita Art Mus., Wichita, KS, 1970s. Awards: watercolor award, Wichita Women Artists, 1957.

Member: Wichita Art Assn.; Wichita Art Mus. Mem.; Kans. Watercolor Soc. (bd. mem.-publicity, 1970-1972).

Work: Wichita Art Assn., Kans. Commissions: mosaic mural, 1961 & bronze tabernacle, 1963, Sisters of Charity, BVM, Wichita.

Comments: Preferred media: watercolors, oils, lithography. Positions: chmn. art educ. Archdiocese Los Angeles, 1946-1956; mem., Diocesan Liturgical Art Comn., Wichita, 1964-; active comt., Scholastic Art Awards, Kans. Regional, 1969-. Teaching: Instr. sec. art, Holy Angels Acad. Milwaukee, Wis., 1933-1945; instr. sec. art, Bishop Conaty Mem. High Sch., Los Angeles, Calif., 1945-1956; instr. art educ. & painting, Clarke Col., Dubuque, Iowa, 1951 & 1958; instr. sec. art, Mt. Carmel Acad., Wichita, 1956-.

Sources: WW73; SM Cathlin, The Story of a Mosaic," Vista, Sisters of Charity, BVM, 1963; John Simoni, "Nun Exhibits Sensitivity," Wichita Eagle & Beacon, May 9, 1965; Connie Close, "Nun Finishing Mosaic Mural," Wichita Eagle, 1965."