Department of Art Alumni
Francis Patnaude
Email: fran45@aol.com.
While teaching as an adjunct professor at WestConn, Francis Patnaude also is the department chair and art teacher at Rumsey Hall School in Washington, CT. He continues his training at the Zen Mountain Monastery in the Eight Gates Training Method and has studied the Japanese brush method, worked with Anthony Caro in the "Water Street Series" at Syracuse University, studied with Huston Smith and attended Studio 70 taught by Michael Skop.
Artists worked with or on pieces include:
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Scoff Burton |
Clement Meadmore |
Frank Stella |
Ronald Bladen |
| John Newman |
George Sugarman |
Michael Heizer |
Beverly Pepper |
William Tucker |
Nancy Holt |
| John Portman |
David Von Schlegell |
Roy Litchenstein |
James Rosati |
James Wolfe |
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Selected Shows:
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1998 |
Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, University Gallery. Collages; month of November. |
1998 |
Forman School, Litchfield, CT. Joyce and Seward Johnson Art Center. Collages, drawings, small sculpture; month of April. 1997 Washington Art Association, Washington, CT. Members show; month of December |
1997 |
Welding Arts Studio, Bethlehem, CT. Paintings, collages, sculpture; month of December; also, June, 1996. |
1997 |
Renova Gallery, Warren, CT. Group sculpture show; June through September; also 1996, 1995. |
1997 |
Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper, NY. Group show, Spring Ango project, based on Master Dogen's Shobogenzo. |
1997 |
Western CT State University Art Gallery, Danbury, CT .Faculty Show, February. |
1994 |
Washington Art Association, Washington, CT. Faculty show; fall. |
1993 |
Artspace, New Haven, CT. Invitational show, December. |
| 1992 |
Wiloughby Sharp Gallery, NYC, NY. Group Show |
1989 |
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT, Connecticut Visions Show |






