Liliana Beatriz Arnillas is a painter/printmaker
born in Lima, Peru. She double majored in art studio and
art education in the Pontifical Catholic University of
Peru, and completed her BFA and MFA at the University of
Kentucky. Between 1994 and 2001, Beatriz taught painting,
drawing and printmaking in Seton Hill University, in Pittsburgh,
and was a tenured associate professor when she moved to
College Station, Texas.
Beatriz served as the Assistant Chair of the Division
of Fine Arts at Blinn College until the Fall of 2006. Before
that, she developed the Service Learning Program at Blinn,
and was awarded a grant to hire
an AmeriCorps*VISTA
Volunteer to help with the development of the Service Learning
at Blinn College (2005). She was recipient of a Vermont
Studio Center Fellowship Award (2000), a Peace Education
Organization Grant (1992), and was twice the recipient
of Kentucky Foundation for Women Personal Grants (1989 & 1990.)
A few years after being a recipient of grants, Beatriz
served in the
KFW Board of Directors.
Beatriz has been a visiting artist (given lectures/presentations)
in several Universities, including the Rochester Institute
of Technology, Rice University, Allegheny College, University
of West Virginia, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
She has done Artist-in-Residence work in public schools
and colleges in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Georgia,
has presented "Very Special Arts" programs with
the Kentucky Arts Council, and was a consultant with the
Kentucky Department of Education in the KERA (Kentucky
Education Reform Act) Multicultural Pilot Program.
Beatriz is active in the community. She started and chaired
the Brazos
Artists Network, a network of writers, performance
and visual artists, and arts advocates, and the Downtown
Bryan Economic Development Association (DBEDA)
Arts and Culture Association (DACA.)
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Beatriz also serves in the Board of NCBI International (National
Coalition Building Institute), an international
organization that trains individuals to take on leadership
in their communities, by building coalitions across
diverse groups, and developing supportive teams. Her
role in NCBI international is to provide consultation
services
to university campuses in Texas.
Her artwork has been displayed in the Chrysler Museum, the
Hofstra University Museum, Casa de Cultura de
Huarte, (Spain,
2003), Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland (2002),
Rochester Institute of Technology, (2001), Boise
State University,
2000, College of Eastern Utah (UT, 2001), Northeastern
Illinois University (Chicago, 2001), The University
of Kentucky, Warren
Wilson College (North Carolina, 2001) and other University
and private Galleries.
Contact Information:
979-209-7555, barnillas@blinn.edu or
larnillas@uh.edu
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Arnillas, painting a Locomotive for the George
Bush Library Public Art Project, "Locomotives on Parade," 2005
(Sponsored by the Astin Partners) |
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