Rosalyn Schwartz was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1952. She is an artist and educator living and working in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
MFA, Fontbonne College; St. Louis, MO (1979)
BFA, Summa Cum Laude, Washington University; St. Louis, MO (1975)
Teaching drawing and painting: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN; and West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Professor in Painting, School of Art, University of Illinois; Urbana-Champaign, IL (active 1988-2008)
National Endowment for the Arts Midwest Fellowship Grant in Painting (1994)
Bush Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts; Minneapolis, MN (1987)
Schwartz participated in a collaborative print project at Normal Editions Workshop during a short term residency with public lecture at the School of Art at Illinois State University in 2000. Schwartz's visit was partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Magenta Series and Magenta Series F.B. are included in the Marks from the Matrix and Illinois Artists traveling exhibitions available from Normal Editions Workshop.
Chris Shepherd assists Rosalyn Schwartz with impressions to sign at Normal Editions, 2002
Tonia Bonnell and Veda Rives processing one of the stones used in the collaborative print project with Rosalyn Schwartz in 2002
inked image after processing one stone in of the collaborative print project with Rosalyn Schwartz, 2002