Lori Loveberry George

 Award-winning artist Lori Loveberry George is a professional artist, curator, teacher and arts advocate. She is a 2008 graduate of Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, and a 1983 graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design, where she was a printmaking major. She is now an instructor at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota where she teaches drawing, painting, and workshops, as well as teaching in Sarasota County schools and libraries. In addition, Lori continues to create and teach private classes at her Sarasota studio.  

Award-winning artist Lori Loveberry George is a professional artist, curator, teacher and arts advocate. She is a 2008 graduate of Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, and a 1983 graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design, where she was a printmaking major. She is now an instructor at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota where she teaches drawing, painting, and workshops, as well as teaching in Sarasota County schools and libraries. In addition, Lori continues to create and teach private classes at her Sarasota studio. 

 I worked many years as a decorative and mural painter, which expanded my skill set with plasters, gilding clays, animal hide glues, metal leaf, trowels, and sanders. I like trying new mark making tools and collect bamboo, soil and clay, animal tails, and rusty metal. My substrate is typically heavy watercolor paper, nautical charts, wood, and canvas. They are versatile and allows aggressive manipulation. 

 Nautical charts serve a two- fold purpose: they stand on their own as a finished work of art, drawn and painted over, and can be easily manipulated into three-dimensional shapes. It’s art on art