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Liliana Beatriz Arnillas is a painter/printmaker born in Lima, Peru. She studied art in the international-award winning School of Art of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and completed her BFA and MFA at the University of Kentucky. Between 1994 and 2001, Beatriz taught painting, drawing and printmaking in Seton Hill University, in Pittsburgh, and was a tenured associate professor when she moved to College Station, Texas. Beatriz served as the Assistant Chair of the Division of Fine Arts at Blinn College until the Fall of 2006. She was the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Award (2000), a Peace Education Organization Grant (1992), and was twice the recipient of Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW) Personal Grants (1989 & 1990.) A few years after being a recipient of grants, Beatriz served in the KFW Board of Directors.
Beatriz has been a visiting artist (exhibited her work, including gallery talks) in several Universities, including the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rice University, Hofstra University, Allegheny College, University of West Virginia, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including but not limited to: The George Bush Library and Museum, Casa de Cultura Huarte (Spain), Gracefield Arts Center (Scotland), The Chrysler Museum, Edenside Gallery (Louisville,) and other private and university galleries in Kentucky, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, online, and Lima (Peru.)
Beatriz is active in the community. She started and chaired the Brazos Artists Network, a network of writers, performance and visual artists, and arts advocates, and the Downtown Bryan Economic Development Association (DBEDA) Arts and Culture Association (DACA), both in the Bryan/College Station area in central Texas, and was able to get donations and matching funds to increase opportunities for artists in the Brazos Valley.
