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Artist Statement:
Pettinati-Longinotti,sfo has
been designing and producing
glass art since an
apprenticeship in 1977-78.
She received a B.F.A. from the
Maryland Institute, College of
Art and her Masters from the
University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, with a studio
major in Glass. Her work has
been shown ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming Exhibition, So Alive
Gallery, Davidson, NC, April
2009
Solo exhibition, UNC-G Elliott
University Center Gallery,
August-September 2005
37 Years of Glass: Roland Jahn
& UArts, Glass Alumni, Aronson
Gallery, January-February
2004,(by exhibition archive).
International Furniture
Market, High Point,NC, April
2003.
International Furniture
Market, High ...
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Artist Galleries:
Gallery representation:
Community Arts Cafe,
Winston-Salem, NC
Professional Memberships
include:
American Glass Guild
Glass Artists.Org
ASIG- Artists in Stained Glass
Stained Glass Instructor at:
Forsyth Technical College,
Winston-Salem
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Artist Reviews:
SELECTED AWARDS:
One of Six National Finalists/
Stained Glass Competitive
Commission, University of
Denver: Graduate School of
Social Work, 2004.
Niche Award for Narrative,
American Craft Award,1999.
Regional Artist Grant,
Winston-Salem Arts Council,
1998.
2nd Place Award for
Figurative, Stained Glass
Association of America
Honorable Mention for Festival
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Collections:
Numerous Private Collectors.
Listing upon Request.
Collaborative Youth Stained
Glass Apprenticeship
Workshops/ Installations:
Seasons through Life: Metaphor
for Positive Change, NAHS
collaboration, in progress.
Windows for the Children's
Home.
A Celebration of the Arts and
Life, Hanes Community Center,
Winston-Salem NC, Artiva
program of the Winston-Salem
Arts ...
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Commissions:
Commissions include:
Our Lady of Mercy Chapel, "The
Four Evangelists", four new
windows to complete their
chapel, Winston-Salem, NC,
February 2010.
Temple Emanuel, "Shabbat and
Tefillin windows",
Winston-Salem, NC, for new
sanctuary, September 2008.
Holy Family Catholic Church,
Elizabeth City, NC,
"Contemplations on the
Canticle of Creation", two ...
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Betti Pettinati Longinotti Biography:
| Biographical information for Betti Pettinati Longinotti can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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52
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
Roman Catholic: SFO |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Gardening; Franciscan Youth & Young Adult Apostolate |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Glass Stained
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Expressionism - (1905 - 1945)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Marc Chagall
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Windows at Chicago Art Institute
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Chartres Cathedral |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Artmaking is among my earliest childhood memories. I have always loved art and artmaking! |
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| Your Personal Biography |
My biography, here an opportunity to be able to share personally the story of my life, if anyone cares to read it.
I am the fourth of five children, born in 1957. I was raised in the Philadelphia suburbs, until we moved to NC in 1972. My Pop was a second generation Italian. His parents were immigrants from (Cheiti) Abruzzi, Italia, in the mid-late 1910's. My father was born into a large Italian Catholic family, as the 2nd son of seven children. The youngest sibling, Uncle Vince was a missionary priest of the Order of the Sacred Heart. He died as a young priest after a term serving in Japan, when I was just a toddler. The image of the Sacred Heart continues to be very special and personal to myself and family.
My Mom grew up in Harlem County Kentucky (a coal miner's daughter) and moved to PA when she was a young adult with her parents. (Post Depression era) She was raised Baptist and converted to Catholicism after my parents were married. My Grandmother, my mother’s mom, was a quilter, and made each one of her grandchildren with a hand-made quilt, as a wedding gift.
I am a mutation of sorts, a product of opposite ends so to speak, as the ‘Bread of Life’ connotes a few different things to me… first of course a inexhaustible love for the Eucharist, and the best memories of freshly baked Italian bread (Marcus Hook, Pa) and home-made corn bread (Grandma’s) that one could ever desire.
I am a cradle Catholic but in my college days I attended non-denominational Spirit-filled churches and prayer groups which later led me to the Catholic Renewal as a young adult.
My spirituality led me to embrace the life of Francis, and I professed to the Secular Franciscan Order in 2003 (SFO). SFO is the original Third Order Franciscans, a lay order which St. Francis established himself.
My spirituality is integral to my aesthetic sensibilities and evident within my ecclesiastical installations. When I endeavor to complete an ecclesiastical installation, I feel I am grafted into St. Francis’ commission to ‘Rebuild MY Church’, as imparted to him by the Lord.
After my latter high school years in NC, yearning to return North, I attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art, BFA, 1979. In my junior year I was fortunate to find an apprenticeship in stained glass with a local Baltimore artist, Saul Farber. Saul was indeed a master artisan of stained glass, especially with the copper foil method. His techniques are ones continued through to generations of students I have taught stained glass to for 30+ years now. I learned awhile ago that Saul passed away in 1997, at 43 years of age. I am blessed to have visited with him, one last time, earlier that year in his studio, known then as FarberGlass.
Saul had a great sense of humor! I can still hear the ‘Oi’ when two of us apprentices, were found foiling from both ends of the same copper foil disk. Saul’s ethnicity was Jewish; his parents were both Holocaust survivors. His father was also a stained glass studio owner, doing mostly commercial copper foil work, restaurant production Tiffany style lampshades and such.
My husband Bob (Longinotti), also a cradle Catholic, but born and raised in NC, and I were married in August of 1979. After a few years as a young professional I returned to college for my masters degree at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, known when I was admitted there as the Philadelphia College of Art. Bob commuted to Philadelphia on the weekends from Baltimore to Philly during those years. He has been a gift to my life, in the many types of ebbs and flows that we have endured throughout our marriage. He has installed every one of my stained glass fabrications.
My MA graduate coursework was completed in the early 1980’s but I did not complete my thesis until 1987, after my career was restarted and my miracle baby, Katie was born in 1986. Finding UA was wonderful for me, as I desired to continue to pursue my education in the field of Art Education, and the Glass Department at UA allowed me to also pursue a studio major in Glass under Professor Roland Jahn.
Roland allowed me to spread my wings both in the size of works I starting building and the aesthetic sense of the work I started creating. At UA I also was embraced into the Studio Glass Movement family tree, as Roland was one of the first generation of the glass students of Harvey Littleton, ‘Father of Glass’. His classmates were Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, Fritz Driesbach and other Glass Heroes. Although I learned much about glassblowing and warm work in glass, my first love is stained glass, as I evolved from being a painter to stained glass.
My home and studio were established in 1982 in Winston-Salem, NC where Bob and I returned to live in our Craftsmen-style cottage home, in the Historic neighborhood of the West End. I am known locally as an art educator and artist. I do continue to paint and exhibit. As a painter I work mostly in plein air, per the mentors of my MICA days. My first artistic thesis was to interpret a series of landscape paintings I had completed into stained glass compositions. These are influences which continue to inspire even my work of today.
I have taught stained glass to adults since 1979, post BFA and teach stained glass currently at Forsyth Technical Community College. My list of exhibitions and commissions can be found within my virtual gallery.
My daughter, Katie, is also an artist; BFA in Ceramics, Alfred University '08; and two degrees (MA &MAT) in Art Education from RISD '10. She currently serves the Sawtooth School for Visual Art as their new Youth Coordinator.
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