In 1935, Blai founded and became the dean of the Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art at Temple University.[2] The school was named for one of his former students, who, with her husband, had donated the estate where it was established.[3][4]
Two of Blai's sculptures are publicly accessible on the Temple campus: a large bust of Temple's founder Russell Conwell which decorates Conwell's grave site, and a small statue of Johnnie Ring, Conwell's orderly during the Civil War.[5]
^"Sculptress Gives College $1,000,000 for Two-Year Course". News-Week. July 13, 1935. p. 34-35. Retrieved May 8, 2022 via Proquest database. "In September [the university] hopes to open the Stella Elkins Tyler Fine Arts College of Temple University.... No faculty has been chosen as yet, but Philadelphians feel sure that Blai,—Mrs. Tyler's genial stout teacher—will get the post of director."