About the Artist
life offers a continuous path towards exploration.
My interests are diverse. When my knowledge, experience, and curiosity intersect, the real work begins and occasionally wonderful things happen.
Lori Lohstoeter began her career as an illustrator. Her clients included many large New York companies and agencies. Along with her commercial success, she developed a published children’s book career, illustrating 11 picture books; Beatrice’s Goat is her most familiar illustrated title. How to paint in Acrylics, is published through the Walter Foster Series of art books and explains the artist’s painting process. Two of her projects were created for and aired on PBS as animated videos: How the Leopard Got His Spots and Noah’s Ark. Many awards followed for her work for young readers. In 2000 she left her commercial career and turned her focus to personal work. She opened her art salon, Artist At Play, in Rowayton, Connecticut. Her paintings of local seascapes and the surroundings remain in demand. In 2004 she returned to school with a focus on graphic design and creative computer programs. Her digital arts knowledge has led her to designing for clients and providing private tutoring on creative suite software/ARTORG911.com. In 2010 she was asked to join the faculty as an adjunct teacher for Norwalk Community College, and teaches Drawing I/foundation drawing to her college students. Her skill as a painter has led her to solo and group exhibits in the Connecticut area. As an accomplished painter, her work is in many private collections in the area. The artist received her BFA from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and completed her studies earning a BA in commercial illustration from the Art Center College of Design in southern California. She studied in New York with Burt Silverman for watercolor. She studies printmaking at the Center for Contemporary Print Making. Ms. Lohstoeter is a member of Firing Circuits Studios in CT. She lives with her husband, James Bradford, in Norwalk, Connecticut.
ARTIST. TEACHER
EXPERIENCE
2010 – Present
Instructor, Norwalk Community College, Drawing 1 Professor
201o-Present
Art Org 9.1.1., Proprietor, Creative Computer Support
1989-2005
Illustrator, Represented by Lindgren & Smith, New York, NY
1997-2005
Speaker, Beatrice and Her Goat, School Program, How to develop a children’s book
Speaker, The Art of Children’s Picture Book Illustrating, How to develop a children’s book
2001-2003
Proprietor & Resident Artist, Artist At Play Gallery, Rowayton CT
1999-2002
Instructor-Adjunct teacher, Parsons School of Design/Continuing Education, New York NY
1989-1990
Instructor-Adjunct teacher, School of Visual Arts, New York NY,
1988-1990
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011
Norwalk Community College, Norwalk CT
2010
Public Arts Project/Norwalk Arts Commission
2009
Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Fairfield CT
New Canaan Nature Center, New Canaan CT
2008
Westport Arts Center, Select Solo Artist
22 Haviland Street Gallery, Norwalk CT
2007
22 Haviland Street Gallery, Norwalk CT
2005
City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport CT
2000-2003
Artist At Play Gallery, Rowayton CT
2000
Center for Contemporary Print Making, Norwalk CT
COLLECTIONS
Forty Acres and a Mule Productions, Spike Lee, Brooklyn NY
Heifer Project International, Little Rock AR
EDUCATION
1983 Bachelor of Arts, Arts Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
1980 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATED WORKS
2003 Cesar Chavez, Simon & Schuster
2001 How To Paint in Acrylics, Walter Foster
2001 Night Calls, Innovative Kids
2001 Beatrice’s Goat, Simon & Schuster
2000 Friend Frog, Harcourt Brace
1999 By The Blazing Blue Sea, Harcourt Brace
1998 Noah And The Ark, Simon & Schuster
1997 Iguana Beach, Crown
1995 The Busy Forest, Modern Curriculum Press
1994 A Christmas Surprise For Chabelita, Troll Associates
1994 Down By The Sea, MacMillan/Mcgraw Hill
1992 Noah And The Ark, Animated Video, Rabbit Ears Productions/PBS
1991 See What You Can See, Silver Burdett & Ginn
1990 How The Leopard Got His Spots, Animated Video, Rabbit Ears Productions/PBS
1990 How The Leopard Got His Spots, Simon & Schuster
ANIMATED PROGRAMING
Noah And The Ark, PBS & Rabbit Ears Productions, Norwalk CT
How The Leopard Got His Spots, PBS & Rabbit Ears Productions, Norwalk CT
AWARDS
2003 African Letters Award
2002 Chapin Award
2002 Christopher Award
2001 New York Times Best Sellers List, Picture Books
2000 Society of Illustrators, Best Picture Book
1999 Society of Illustrators, Editorial
1998 Society of Illustrators, Best Picture Book
1993 Parents Choice Award
