George Dorado Blanco
George Dorado Blanco, a native of Guantanamo, Cuba, studied painting at the renowned San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana. He graduated in 1977, and taught Design and Composition for Painting and Sculpture at the School of Fine Art Jose Joaquin Tejado in Santiago, Cuba, where he developed his own curriculum. His methodology incorporated avante-garde concepts from the Bauhaus School of Design and the drawings and designs of Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1980, Dorado Blanco resigned his teaching position to come to the United States. In 1988 he graduated from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity and introduced the concept of Art and Healing to many churches and communties in the Chicago area. Dorado Blanco once said:
I deeply believe that art, in general, is the best deterrence against violence and spiritual bankruptcy. I have committed myself to the production and promotion of artwork as a way of bringing healing through personal and communal transformation.
In 2002, he began his pursuit of a Doctorate of Ministry in Art and Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary In Washington D.C. He traveled to France to study the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist, then to Italy to study the Renaissance and the Frescos of the Dominican order. Dorado Blanco has been teaching art in various community and academic settings since 1989. While on the south side of Chicago, he took over a vacant factory building and converted it into a Community Art Center where he integrated the healing property of art into the lives of many children, youth, and the elderly.
Mr. Dorado Blanco will be available for a discussion of his work at reception following worship some time in October. To see more of his art,
