Winners' Circle
Alumni
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LORETTA LOWMAN
P.O. Box 68 • Socorro, New Mexico 87801
Ph. # 505.835.1017 • E-mail: llowman@rt66.com
In 1987, Loretta
was awarded Maryland Artists' Equity Foundation's
1st place, $3,000 tuition scholarship award.
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2001 Van De Griff/ Marr Galleries, Sante Fe, NM.
2000 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM., MFA, Sculpture
1999 Artist-in-Residence, Burren College of Art, County Clare, Ireland.
1996 Art Therapy Instructor (2 yrs.), Socorro Mental Health Foundation, NM
1991 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, BFA, Sculpture
1987 Presidential Scholar in the Arts
1987 Mt. Hebron High School. Teachers - Adkins, Zuccarini
1987 MAEF Award
1995 MAEF Alumni Exhibition, Howard County Dept. of Ed. Gallery , MD
1998 MAEF Alumni Exhibition, Maryland Insititute College of Art, MD
I am interested in the presence of things. The little stone picked up and held in the palm. The perfect moment of a small cloud just so in the sky. There are moments when I feel a great sense of interconnection, and an awareness of presence. The sculptor Isamu Noguchi spoke about these kinds of things, that “the visible world, in human terms, is more than scientific truths. It enters our consciousness as emotion as well as knowledge.” That somehow, through sculpture, these inner presences could be translated into form.
Shells, seeds, pods, stones—these are often beginnings, appealing not only because of their shapes and textures, but for their metaphorical stories. In my working, I overlap this imagery with references to the body and the landscape, reconnecting the small and the large, the inner and the outer.
Loretta Lowman
Sculptor