Professional Organizations

• Salmagundi Club, N.Y.C. Elected Artist Member
• Michigan Pastel Association, Honorary Master Member
• Oil Painters of America

• Midwest Pastel Society
  Elected Full Member
• Pastel Society of America Elected Full Member-Master Pastelist
• Oil Pastel Association
  Elected Full Member

• American Portrait Society Elected Full Member
• American Society of Portrait Artists, Elected Full Member
• Knickerbocker Artist
  Elected Signature Artist

Grand Rapids (MI) Art Museum
Michigan Supreme Court
Michigan State Senate
McGee's Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA
Western Michigan University
The Muskegon Museum of Art in MI
Beta Rho Delta National Sorority Museum in Oxford, Ohio
many other distinguished locations throughout the United States

Awards

Dow Center for the Arts Award, Great Lakes Pastel Society National Show, Midland, MI 2010
Third Prize, 2010 West Michigan Regional Competition, Lowell, MI
Honorable Mention, 2007 Great Lakes Pastel Exhibition, Toledo Ohio Museum of Art
Purchase Award, Festival 2006 Regional Art Competition, Grand Rapids, MI
People’s Choice Award, Festival 2005 Regional Art competition, Grand Rapids, MI 
Honorable Mention, 2005 Pastel100 competition, Pastel Journal Magazine
Gold Medal Award, 2004 Great Lakes Pastel Society exhibition, Grosse Pointe, MI 
Honorable Mention, 2004 Pastel100 competition, Pastel Journal Magazine
Honorable Mention, 2003 Pastel100 competition, Pastel Journal Magazine 
Purchase Award - 2003 Pastel Society of America NYC Annual exhibition 
Purchase award - 2002 Pastel Society of America, NYC Annual exhibition 
The Pastel Society of NM award – 2000 Pastel Society of America, NYC Annual 
The Award of Excellence, Midwest Pastel Society, 1996 Annual; 
Finalist in the 1995 ARTIST MAGAZINE portrait competition
Master Pastelist Award -1993 Pastel Society of America's 
Watson-Guptill Award –1992
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Portraiture - 1991 National Portrait Seminar
Salmagundi Award –1987
Metropolitan Portrait Society Award –1986

- are but a few of the consistently outstanding achievements
awarded to Larry Blovits for his work)

Represented By

Francesca Anderson Fine Art Portraits North, Lexington, MA 
Arnold Klein Gallery, Royal Oak, MI 
MercuryHead Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
Dockside Gallery, St. Ignace, MI
Button / Petter Gallery, Douglas, MI

Featured in the following publications

"Photographing Your Art", Profile Magazine of the American Portrait Society, Third Issue
"Directory of American Portrait Artists", Pages 387-388
"Artist in Residence - Larry Blovits' multipurpose Studio", American Artist Magazine, June, 1990
"Those Already Counted', American Artist Magazine, August, 1990
Author - "Pastel Landscape; Technique and Procedure", 60-minute instructional video 1991
"The Best of Flower Painting", featured artist, North Light Books, 1997
Author - "Pastel for the Serious Beginner", by Larry Blovits, Watson-Guptill, 1996
"Who's Who in the World", 12th Edition
"Who's Who in the Midwest", 23rd - 25th edition
"Who's Who in America", 47th - 51th editions
"Who's Who in American Education", 4th edition
"Men of Achievement", 16th edition - Nominated International Man of the year, 1992,
International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England

"5000 Personalities of the World", 5th edition
'Pastel interpretations", Madelyn-Ann Woolwich, cover and featured artist,
North Light Books, 1993

"The Art of Pastel Portraiture", Madelyn-Ann Woolwich, featured artist, Watson-Guptill, 1996
"Best of America Pastel Artists, Volume II", Page 17-18, 2009

• Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. B.F.A, 1964, M.F.A. 1966
• Aaron Shikler Workshop, Old Lyme Academy, Old Lyme, CT, 1988
• Daniel Greene Oil and Pastel Portraiture Workshops, North Salem, NY, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
• National Portrait Seminar, NYC 1981, 1982, Atlanta 1991, 1993
• Richard Whitney Portrait Workshop, 1994