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	Podcast:		One Square Mile
	Episode:		Artist Bob Dilworth, known for his vibrant, joyful paintings, is honored at 25th Pell Awards
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:00:00
	Publish Date:		2024-06-13 07:16:00
	Description:		The recently-retired URI professor was honored this week with the Rhode Island Pell Award for excellence in the arts. Artscape producer James Baumgartner visited Dilworth in his studio in Providence for this profile. Bob Dilworth has been drawing and painting since he was a child growing up in Lawrenceville, Virginia in the 1950s and 60s. The art teacher at a local HBCU encouraged Dilworth to apply to the Rhode Island School of Design, and after studying painting there, he went on to teach a few different places, before coming back to Rhode Island in the early 90s. After teaching at URI for nearly 30 years, Dilworth retired in early 2020. But he hasn’t slowed down. I met with him in his garage studio in a quiet corner of Providence where he paints for 10-14 hours a day. Dilworth had several paintings in progress on canvasses 6-8 feet tall. Most of his paintings are portraits, more or less life-sized, and he describes the subjects as his community: his friends in Rhode Island, and people from his hometown. The post Artist Bob Dilworth, known for his vibrant, joyful paintings, is honored at 25th Pell Awards appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.
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