GBH Community Canvas: A Beauteous Heap
- Alumni in the News
MassArt Alumna Resa Blatman (BFA ’95) was selected for GBH’s Community Canvas on March 14, 2025. Her mural, A Beauteous Heap, is inspired by a rich history of paintings from the Netherlandish style, Baroque period, Hudson River School movement, and Abstract Expressionism.
“Humanity’s role in the rapidly changing environment adds vulnerability and a tinge of despair to the mixture of painterly beauty – turbulent, roiling skies hint at an unsettled world, while mounds of tiny moss appear monumental, peculiar, and strangely comforting,” Blatman says. “Themes of death, rebirth, unknowing, mournfulness, and joy reside here alongside gratitude, compassion, and love for the Earth and each other.”
Blatman is a visual artist, specializing in public art installations, paintings, drawings, and shadow boxes. See more of Blatman’s work on Instagram @resa.blatman and resablatman.com
