Patricia Hill Burnett

Background

Burnett, Patricia Hill was born on September 5, 1920 in Brooklyn. Daughter of William Burr and Mimi (Uline) Hill.

Education

Student of University Toledo, 1937-1938, Goucher College, 1939-1941. Student Master"s program Institute Doctorate"Allende, Mexico, 1967, Wayne State University, 1972. Student of John Carroll, Detroit, 1941-1944, Sarkis Sarkisian, Detroit, 1956-1960, Wallace Bassford, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1968-1972, Walter Midener, Detroit, 1960-1963.

Career

Actress, Lone Ranger program and the GreenHornet program Radio Blue Network, 1941-1946. Teacher of painting and sculpture University of Michigan Extension, Ann Arbor, since 1965. Lecturer New York SpeakersBur., since 1971.

Proprietor Burnett Studios, Detroit, since 1962, manager, since 1962.

Numerous one-woman shows of paintings and sculpture include: Scarab Club, Detroit, 1971, Midland (Michigan) Art Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, The Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Agra Gallery, Washington, Salon des Artes, Paris. Numerous group shows including: Palazzo Pruili Gallery, Venice, Italy, 1971, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1967, Butler Museum, North.Cleve., 1972, Windsor (Ontario, Canada) Art Center, 1973, Weisbaden (Germany) Gallery, 1976.

Represented in permanent collections: Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University, Detroit, Wooster (Ohio) College, Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Bloomfield Art Association, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, also private collections. Numerous portrait paintings including portraits of Indira Ghandi, Benson Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, Mistress Edsel Ford, Betty Ford, Roman Gribbs, Princess Olga Mrivani, Lord John Mackintosh, Marlo Thomas, Viveca Lindfois, Betty Freidan, Gloria Steinem, Congresswoman Martha Griffiths, Margaret Papandreou, Valentina Tereshkova, Barbara Walters, Margaret Thatcher, Corazon Aquino, Violetta Chamarra, Jackie Joyner Kersee, numerous others

Member editorial board American Portrait Society.

Author: True Colors: An Artist"s Journey From Beauty Queen to Feminist. Chairwoman of Michigan Women"s Commission, since 1972. President Detroit House of Correction Commission, since 1975.

Treasurer Republican District.1 of Michigan, since 1973.

Member Issues Committee, Republican State Central Committee, 1975-1976. Secretary Republican State Ways and Means Committee, since 1975.

Member.Mich. State Advisory Council Vocational Education.

Member Michigan Arts in Education Council, since 1978. Member New Detroit Arts Committee, since 1979.

Chairman World Feminist Commission, 1974. Life member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Achievements

• Patricia Hill Burnett has been listed as a notable artist, author, sculptor, lecturer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member editorial board American Portrait Society. Member Issues Committee, Republican State Central Committee, 1975-1976. Member.Mich. State Advisory Council Vocational Education.

Member Michigan Arts in Education Council, since 1978.

Member New Detroit Arts Committee, since 1979. Member Women"s Forum (founder 1989, board directors 1990-1998), Detroit Institute Arts (director

Membership committee since 1958), National Association of Communications for Women (secretary, director 1976-1978), Michigan Academy of the Arts, Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, Women in the Arts, Scarab. Club, New York Portrait.

Clubs: Zonta International, Detroit Economics (board directors).

Connections

Married Harry Albert Burnett, October 9, 1948. Children: William Hill Lange, Harry Burnett III, Terrill Hill, Hillary Hill.

Father:

William Burr Hill

Mother:

Mimi (Uline) Hill

Spouse:

Harry Albert Burnett

child:

William Hill Lange Burnett

child:

Harry Burnett III Burnett

child:

Hillary Hill Burnett

child:

Terrill Hill Burnett