by Lorri Acott-Fowler
Ft. Collins, Colorado

After a full life as a wife, mother and teacher, Lorri began taking art lessons with her father, a sculptor. She started in figurative bronze and oil based clay eventually branching into clays that did not have to be cast to be permanent. She then used ceramic paper clay and fired pieces with large nails and steel spikes to support them. It was a technique she had not seen before and through trial and error and a relentless problem solving approach she found it would work.

The Poudre High School (Ft. Collins CO.) art teacher is presently shown in six galleries in the western U.S. and her artwork is either purchased or rented for five currently running television programs including Brother & Sisters and ER.

Fowler was awarded an Arts Alive fellowship in 2006 and she won honorable mention in the Women's National Exhibition in Buffalo, NY in March of 2006.