Still, life. #08 Painting

Debra Di Blasi is an artist, former art critic, and award-winning writer. Her visual and multimedia art has been exhibited at museums, galleries, and universities. She holds a BFA in painting from Kansas City Art Institute, where she later taught literature and creative writing with an emphasis on innovative and experimental forms, including mixed media. Her series of Chinese brush paintings have been published in books and journals, and in a 7-volume portfolio series. She returned to abstract oil painting after a hiatus during which she founded and ran an innovative multimedia publishing company. She is the author of 13 literary books, including Birth of Eros, The Jiri Chronicles and What the Body Requires. The short film based on her novella Drought, directed by Lisa Moncure and cowritten by Moncure and Debra, won a host of national and international awards, including Best Screenplay from Kansas City Film Jubilee, and was one of only six US films invited to the Universe Elle section of the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival. Her short prose and poetry is published in prominent literary journals and notable anthologies of innovative writing. ­­­­ She divides her time between the U.S. and Portugal.