Marilyn Bauman
Marilyn Bauman, The Violette de Mazia Foundation’s Director of Education, began her study of the objective method in 1976 when she enrolled in Violette de Mazia’s first-year class at The Barnes Foundation. Her teacher for the second-year class, Angelo Pinto, introduced her to the Traditions of Art. She then joined the seminar, also led by de Mazia. During her 10 years in the seminar, she presented many lectures. Two of these talks were published in Vistas: “Informed Perception: A Personal View,” and “Born Again!”

Marilyn has taught for the Violette de Mazia Foundation since 2000. She has taught in the galleries of The Barnes Foundation, at the Delaware Art Museum, the University of Delaware’s Academy of Lifelong Learning, West Chester University, and at the Cab Calloway School of the Arts (the arts middle/high school in Wilmington). In January 2007, she will teach a course accredited by Delaware State University and held at the Delaware Art Museum as well as at West Chester University.

After receiving a master’s degree in English, Marilyn taught for twenty-five years in the writing programs of several universities, including sixteen years at the University of Delaware. In 1991, she was named executive director of the Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education (DIAE), an aesthetic education program for Delaware teachers and their students based on John Dewey’s educational theories and modeled on the Lincoln Center Institute in New York City.

Marilyn has written articles about art and artists for Delaware Today magazine, the Wilmington News Journal, and Vistas (a journal of The Barnes Foundation). Her book, Edward L. Loper, Sr., The Prophet of Color: A Disciple’s Reflections, was published in 1999. Rhonda Graham, a reporter for The News Journal, calls the book the “first and most comprehensive biography of Edward Loper.”

Marilyn has been exhibiting her oil paintings regularly for more than twenty years in regional, solo, and group shows. Her work is in many private and public collections, including WilmingtonTrust Bank, MBNA, the Division of Libraries Art Collection of the State of Delaware, and the Blount Collection of American Art.