Caryn A. Blum Art

Caryn A Blum

Caryn A. Blum is my legal name, and I have never worked, lived or created anything using any alias, or other name or identity.

I own the rights to my artwork and content created by me. I created this website and my artwork independently, and own the rights to my work. I am a trained professional artist, and all my styles, and content of artwork are 100% created by me alone.

No one is allowed to print or reproduce my work without specific permission and compensation from approved institutions and professional adult clients.

Certified Pk-12th grade Visual Art Teacher since 2007

Master’s of Education, 2009

Bachelor’s of Fine Arts (B.F.A) 2007

Connect with the artist at: carynablum@gmail.com

Artist Bio

I am artist educator, Caryn A. Blum. I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduated from Pius XI High School of Milwaukee, earned my B.F.A. in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and my MA. in Education from Seton Hall University. I have exhibited my Fine Art mixed media paintings, Illustration, 3D sculptural mixed media art, stop-motion animation, collages and clay works nationwide from 2000 to 2026. I first exhibited my paintings at the Milwaukee Art Museum from 2000-2003 as a Scholastic Pentad award college scholarship and Gold Key award winner. My art has been exhibited in galleries such as Mass MOCA, Blue Ridge Mountain Gallery of Chelsea, NYC, PJ’s Gallery of Wauwatosa, WI, Virginia Arts Center of Richmond, The Woods Gerry Gallery of RISD in Providence, RI, Kohler Art Center, Kohler, WI, Anderson Arts Center of Indiana. Pont Aven School of Art and Gallery of Pont Aven, France, Baton Rouge Arts Center, and the Miller Art Museum of Sturgeon Bay, WI. I was most recently awarded a finalist in the Door County, WI, Art in the Door, 2025 artist competition.

In addition to showing my art, have worked from 2007 to 2026 as a Visual Art educator, and substitute teacher with a master’s degree in education and dual certification in NJ and WI for PK-12th Art. I teach in regular PK-12 schools, as well as in galleries, and alternative venues as a tutor and arts instructor. I have published children’s books and education based content for families in art education since 2008, and I continue to seek means of developing art curriculum, and works of art that celebrate nature, real fine arts, and a love of positive and family friendly conceptual work in Visual Arts communities.

Over the trajectory of my career of over twenty years; I include my formative years as an advanced placement Visual Artist and Fine Arts Painting/ Illustration major in my A.P. (Advanced Placement) college-preparatory high school because I believe whole-heartedly in upholding the intent of artists and young people. My intent as an artist, and young professional has always and only been in the support of using my hand-made and diverse Visual Art skills and education for goodness. I have worked from age 15 to age 41 now only creating visual art objects (paintings, drawings, small sculpted works, sketchbooks, illustrated books and stop-motion animations) as my art. This includes the in-person Fine Art gallery exhibition of my Gold-Key and National Pentad Fine Art Award scholarship portfolio, which was completed, copyrighted and sold to private owners prior to 2003. This also includes my Scholastic scholarship exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and The Haggerty Museum of Art, as well as the Corcoran Museum of Art. I write about this because my entire life has been dedicated to the study, creation, exhibition, and education of Visual Fine Arts, Illustration and Visual Art Education. I earned a B.F.A in Visual Art, as well as a Master’s degree in Education, and I work as a certified Visual Art teacher and substitute teacher in addition to the exhibition and sales of my Visual Art objects. I would never participate in work that went against the freedom, autonomy, safety, and protection of family-friendly values, my identity as a straight, Christian woman, or the Christian moral values and art that I choose to represent me, or my work and life. I have always been the same girl who believes in my own right to choose my own artistic and spiritual purpose in this one precious life. I was born a girl; and I believe my one life is mine to take care of. I will always be the same person, a woman who only agrees to participate in authentic, positive, safe and family-friendly themes that support my beliefs as a Christian woman. I am a strong supporter of the rights of artists, education and the protection of children. Every school I attended and workplace institution I was employed with has always known my identity is a Confirmed Christian woman, with strong morals, and over 20 years of a career making paintings, drawings, illustrations, and sculptures as my art.

I have also worked as an artist educator from age 15 to 41, only supporting age-appropriate Visual Art object making classes and content my entire career. This distinction is my right, though my education, degrees and work as an American Visual Artist Educator. I am the sole owner of my artistic and educational professional identity. This statement is crucial because I would never support the destruction of authentic and true artistic autonomy, and American rights of artists and educational institutions. Autonomy means that 100% of the efforts, definition, and use of work and efforts goes towards the intended cause and goal. No one has the right to utilize my life, work, identity, or self in any capacity unless I have approved this. I am a Christian woman, and have always been proud of the woman I am, who God made me to be naturally. The intent and purpose of my life, work, and actions are 100% only in service of being a teacher of children, and an artist who makes visual art objects as defined clearly above. I have documented all the years of my life, the support of my schools, workplaces and family of the pursuit of these American rights; and the talent, education and well earned career. Anyone who supports American artists right to choose the art they create, and the ways they put work into the world can empathize with the fact that the artist, chooses what art they create. I choose that my original art objects of paintings, drawings, books, stop-motion animations, illustrations, and sculptures are my art. No one has the right to use my art, me, my body, my life, teaching lessons, ideas, workplaces, likeness, voice, writing or life story in any content without my permission. This is my right as a Christian American woman artist.

My values and morals as a Christian woman educator include my support only of work and intent that supports natural life, peace, safety and individual positive American rights to identity, freedom to pursue one’s own life work and happiness. I love working as both a visual artist and an educator of young people. I have a ton of knowledge and expertise in a wide variety of artistic processes, visual art mediums, contemporary conceptual art and art history. I work to continue my career as both artist and educator in ways that support me, and promote peaceful coexistence as an American artist professional in a complex intellectual and social global and local community.

Artist Gallery and Commission C.V.

2026 64th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, The Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, D.C.,WI

2025  Art in the Door, Finalist, Destination Door County's Juried Art of parks Competition, D.C, WI

2024   Art By the Foot, Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Center for Visual Art, Wausau, WI 

2024  49th Juried Annual Exhibition, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, D.C., WI 

2023  Artist Educator Faculty Art Exhibition, Spectrum Art Gallery, Racine WI 

2022  Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Illustrator in Residence, Art Education, Richmond, VA

2021  AENJ Members Art Exhibition, Art Educators of NJ, Central NJ

2020  2020 Small Works Juried Group Show, Medford Arts Center, Medford, NJ 

2020 Unstoppable, Fall Juried show at Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA 

2020 Phillustration 12: Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

2020 Tree Teachers, Children's Book Sales and Representation, Novel Bay Booksellers, Sturgeon Bay, D.C., WI

2019 Artful Women, Wisconsin Women’s Network, Juried visual art exhibition, UW Madison, WI 

2018 Ranney School Art Faculty Art Department Exhibition, Tinton Falls, NJ

2015 Group Visual Art Exhibition, Fox Gallery, UPenn, Philadelphia PA

2015 The Cutting Edge, Fine Arts Painting Alumni Exhibition, Joseph & Harriet Kern & Carron Family Galleries, Pius XI High School, Milwaukee WI

2014-15 National Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Baton Rouge Center Contemporary Art, Baton Rouge, LA 

2014-15 National Juried Group Drawing and Painting Exhibition, Blue Mountain Gallery, Chelsea NY, NY 

2014 National Group Visual Art Exhibition, Summer National Juried Exhibition, Marin Moca, Novato, CA 

2014 A Lot Juried Mural Illustration Exhibition, Bayview, Milwaukee, WI 

2014 Figures of Speech, Illustration Exhibition, The Anderson Center for the Arts, Anderson IN 

2014 Illustrated Logo, website and promotional Design for thingNY, music ensemble, Brooklyn, NY 

2014 Juried Wisconsin Artist Exhibition, Kohler Art Center, Kohler, WI

2013 Artful Women Show, Visual Art Exhibition, Wisconsin Women’s Network, Madison, WI 

2013 Commission for Painting, UW Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI 

2013 Group Visual Art Exhibition, Artworks Inc. Trenton, Trenton, NJ 

2012 Faculty and Staff Art Exhibit, Anne Reid ‘72 Gallery, Princeton, NJ 

2011 Art Department Faculty Visual Art Show, Anne Reid ‘72 Gallery, Princeton, NJ 

2011 Group Drawing and Painting Exhibition, One Mark to the Next, The Drift Space, Lincoln, NE 

2010 Group Visual Art Exhibition, The Heldrich/Brodsky Center Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ 

2009 Group Drawing Exhibition, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ 

2008 Curator, Group Visual Art Exhibition, Labyrinth Phantasmal, Kitchen Café, Jersey City, NJ 

2008 Group Drawing Exhibition, PRANA Life Force, Kitchen Café, Jersey City, NJ 

2008 Set Design, The Tank Theater inc. NYC, NY 

2007 Group Visual Art Exhibition, Painting Thesis Show, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI 

2007 Group Painting Exhibition, RISD Library, Providence, RI 

2006 Curation and Group Painting and Drawing Exhibition, Risd|Brown Gallery, Providence, RI

2006 Group Fine Art Exhibition, RISD| Brown Gallery, Providence, RI 

2006 Group Fine Art Exhibition, Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont Aven, France 

2004 RISD and Brown Visual Art Exhibition, RISD| Brown Gallery, Providence, RI

2003 Scholastic Gold Key and Pentad Scholarship | Fine Arts Exhibition, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C. 

2000 Scholastic Fine Arts Gold Key Award Winners Exhibition, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI

2000 A.P. Fine Arts Invitational Juried Artist Exhibition, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University,  Milwaukee WI

2001-02 Scholastic Fine Arts Key Winners Exhibition, P.J.'s Art and Framing Gallery, Wauwatosa, WI

Awards

AWARDS

2025  Finalist for Art in the Door, Finalist in Destination Door County's juried Art inspired by parks Competition, Door County, WI

2020 Honorable Mention, Small Works Exhibition, Medford Arts Center, Medford, NJ

2019 Honorable Mention, Wisconsin Women’s Network, Artful Women Juried Competition, Madison, WI

2014 Third Best in Show, Anderson Center for the Arts, Anderson IN 

2010 Leon Golub Merit Scholarship Award, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 

2007 Florence Leif Award for Women B.F.A. Painting Major Artists, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 

2003-­2007 Four Year Merit Scholarship for Painting and Drawing Portfolio,  B.F.A, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2000-2002  Pentad Scholarship for Painting, and multiple Gold Key Merit Awards for Scholastic Fine Arts 

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