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ABOUT LORETTA

Loretta Kaufman is a multi-media artist in Nashville, Tennessee.  Originally from New York, raised in Venezuela, she has lived and worked in the Bahamas and South Africa.  She graduated from Palm Beach State College, studied at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale in Florida, and with noted ceramic artist Mohaczy-Matic in Pretoria.  During the 1970's, in South Africa, Loretta's work was hand built earthernware.  Humidors, vases and other utilitarian objects  were produced  for retailers in Pretoria and Johannesburg.  Over the years she has found that work in one medium can give her an idea for something in another.  Her ideas have been interpreted in several media including clay, wood, fiber, metal, paper, and paint.  The sparks that start the process and the inspiration behind Loretta's work are the natural world and the life around us.


Loretta's work has exhibited in over 300 solo, invitational, juried, national/international exhibitions,  including INDEX Dubai 2018, Dubai World Trade Center, United Arab Emirates, CICA Museum (Czong Institute for Contemporary Art) South Korea in 2021, Canada and Italy among others.   In 2020 a Curated Survey encompassing paintings, sculptures, works on paper and collage was exhibited at the Gallery of the  Tennessee Arts Commission in Nashville. Some recent awards are the NAWA Medal of Honor and  Florence & Irwin Zlowe Memorial Award in the 131st Annual Members' Exhibition in 2020 for her wall sculpture,  an Honorable Mention for her free standing sculpture  in 'Sculpture On & Off the Wall', a National Association of Women Artists Exhibition at the NAWA Gallery in Manhattan in 2019, the Cecile Adler Cliffer Memorial Cutting Edge Award (open to all media) for her acrylic painting in the NAWA 2018 Annual Members' Exhibition at Chrystie Street Gallery in New York, and the Albert Nelson Marquis  Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, given to less than 5% of Who's Who listees for her decades-long involvement in the visual arts.  Loretta was a faculty member of the Greenville County Museum of Art School where she taught sculpture, has completed  residencies in the South Carolina Arts Commission Arts in Education Program, and was a Visiting Artist at the University of South Carolina.  She is  a member of Piedmont Craftsmen, Emeritus, (clay), Tri State Sculptors,  a Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), a Certified Peer Juror of NAWA, and a writer/contributor for NAWA NOW Magazine, the quarterly online publication of the National Association of Women Artists. South Carolina Educational TV has also produced several monographs about Loretta.  Her work has been featured and reviewed in numerous international art journals, and in 2018 her oil painting was published in 'Gate Posts With No Gate - The Leg Paint Project'.  This ground-breaking book of poetry carries an endorsement from author and curator Sean Hemingway. Loretta's full biography is listed in Who's Who In The South & Southwest, Who's Who In American Art, and Who's Who In America.


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