Doodles and Dreams a blogspot of Ray Lavin's drawings http://doodlesanddreams.blogspot.com/

One and None


There


Arrangement


Arrangement at 5pm


Arrangement 1-2-3



Wrong


Wing Whisper


Prismind Toon Gloria (The Prisoner)


Off the Ball


Suits on Parade


Stolen


Storm Over My Garden


Red Dog Moon Hat Full of Blues


Sawhorse Dream


Day or Night Which Way


Next Door


The Painting within a Painting


Letter to Norman


Joker


If


The Garden of the Guard


Fragments of the Narcissus


Four Thirty


Dear


Dark Light


Closed


Blues Note Wing and Prayer


Arrangement


911


30 x34


Curriculum Vitae

RAYMOND WILLIAM LAVIN
EDUCATION
Paul Klee Institute 1973
Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A. 1961
Brown University 1960 - 1961
Washington University, B.F.A. 1958

ONE-PERSON SHOWS
Wellesley Free Library, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Dec. 2005
Pine Manor Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 1963

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Newton Art Center Newton Massachusetts 1967 – 1995
Newton Division of Instruction, Newton Massachusetts 1996 – 2000

AWARDS AND HONORS

· Received a commission from Channel 5 to create and direct an animated film about Kwansa using students work.
· “Most Creative Program of Integrated Arts” Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
· Was chosen to work in conjunction with the Brandeis University faculty to learn film making skills and techniques.
· Awarded a fully paid six month sabbatical to go to Europe, where by chance I discovered icons and the work of Adolf Wolfie, Gustave Moreau, Morandi, and Giotto; during this time, I also studied at the Paul Klee Institute.

TEACHING

Rhode Island School of Design
Instructor 1961
Gestalt & the Psychology of Art:

Pine Manor College
Artist in Residence & Chair of the Art Department 1961-1965

Boston University
Instructor 1968-75
Art & the Psychology of Addiction: Collaborated with Professor Adolf Manoil in teaching a course that investigated the connections between addiction and creativity, in the attempt to determine whether creativity could become, in itself, an addiction.

F. A. Day Middle School 1965-2000
Studio Arts Teacher
Art and Multi-Media

LECTURES

Paul Klee’s Notebooks and the Bauhaus 1985
· Delivered at University of Maryland for the National Art Teachers Association

The Test: Art as an Indicator of Academic Inclination and Success 1976
· Delivered to the Harvard University Psychology Department
· Delivered to the Boston University Psychology Department