Lula Mae Blocton is an American abstract artist and painter and emeritus professor of East Connecticut State University.
[2] Blocton graduated in 1969, the second Black student in the university’s history to receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
[4] In the early 1970s, Blocton joined “Black Woman in Visual Perspective,” an artist collective that included Eleta Caldwell, Gladys Grader, Adrienne Hoard, Julia Miller, Janet Taylor Pickett, and Nette Forne Thomas.
[8][9] Blocton’s work appears in several permanent collections, including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, The Connecticut State University System, Eastern Connecticut State University, First Fairview Capital Inc., Indiana University, Prudential Life Insurance Company, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The book was published to coincide with “Lula Mae Blocton, The First Two Decades, 1970-1990,” show at Skoto Gallery, New York.