Lorraine Cleary Dale
MFA Visual Art, Claremont Graduate University
Lizbeth Navarro was born and raised in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. In 2010 she earned a BFA in Ceramics from California State University, Long Beach.
Lorraine Cleary Dale is a visual artist and has taught art for the last thirty years to children, teens, and adults. She holds a BFA from California State University, Long Beach and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Visual Art. For the last two decades, she was the Director of Education at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California. In that role she trained artists how to teach art through her acclaimed Teaching Artist Fellowship program, as well as held countless training sessions for classroom teachers in how to integrate the arts into core academic areas such as science and math. She is currently a Lead Visual Art Specialist in the Pasadena Unified School District, where she teaches art to K - 5th grade students.
Lorraine’s studio practice centers around the concept of Social Ecology as she creates biomorphic drawings, paintings, and sculptures that reflect her connection to our natural environment, as well as the biological and psychological factors that allows one to reflect upon our natural world. She has exhibited her work both locally and nationally.