United States, 2081947
Blood, an expressionistic painter, has exhibited in galleries and museums on four continents. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia; the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture in Montgomery, Alabama; and the Beach Institute Museum in Savannah, Georgia. Blood's art has been shown at the Kolkata Center for Creativity, Kolkata, India, the Edgar Negret Museum in Bogota, Colombia, and the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea, in 2024. Her work was featured on the front cover of the North American Reciprocal Museums (NARM) Association quarterly.
She was selected as a visiting artist in the U.S. State Department's 'Art in Embassies' program, such as the U.S. embassies in Liberia, Ethiopia, Guyana, and Austria. Several works have been shown as part of the embassy program in New York. In 2023, she was a special guest artist at the West Bund Museum (Shanghai, China) (https://www.kankanews.com/detail/DgwMV3jbZ2W), the Harmony Art Gallery (Shanghai), the US Embassy American Center (Shanghai), and New York University's campus in Shanghai.
Blood studied painting under John Howard of Arkansas, a protege and colleague of Dr. Hale Woodruff, a legendary artist of the Harlem Renaissance.
As a student in the segregated South, she was the first black American to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in 1978. For two years, she was the protégée of designer, sculptor, and Professor Emeritus Myron Brody, known for his 'Sentascape' series.