Lorraine Schechter received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts. She lived in the south of France and the hills of northwestern Connecticut before settling in Santa Fe in 1988. Her mixed media paintings, prints, and constructions are in museum, corporate and private collections throughout the United States. The Museum of Modern Art was the original publisher of her innovative collection of paper sculpture card designs. Her poems have appeared in …
Lorraine Schechter received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts. She lived in the south of France and the hills of northwestern Connecticut before settling in Santa Fe in 1988. Her mixed media paintings, prints, and constructions are in museum, corporate and private collections throughout the United States. The Museum of Modern Art was the original publisher of her innovative collection of paper sculpture card designs. Her poems have appeared in literary and on-line poetry reviews including the Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Clackamas Literary Review and numerous poetry anthologies. She is a winner of the Recursos/Southwest Writers Discovery Contest. Lorraine's poems have appeared in a variety of poetry reviews and anthologies. She is a winner of the Recursos/Southwest Writers Discovery Contest. A collection of her poems, "The Seasons of Yes: Poems and Images" won the 2008 New Mexico Book Award in Poetry. "The Songs of Yes" a musical composition by Lawrence Axelrod based on her poems was performed by CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Chicago in June 2010, where she also gave a reading sponsored by the Poetry Foundation for the Chicago Tribune's LitFest.
Lorraine was an arts educator for more that thirty-five years and she developed and directed the Santa Fe Arts Commission's ArtWorks program, a progressive arts education program for elementary school children and teachers, continuing as Artistic Director until retiring in 2010. She was the Statewide Coordinator for the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest organized by New Mexico Arts and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation from 2006-2010. Lorraine designed, curated and developed the content for the New Mexico Museum of Art's educational website: New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History. She consults in arts education and program development with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the Santa Fe Opera and IAIA/Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.
