As a traveler who prefers driving on meandering backroads to speeding along Interstate highways, Lori found her path into art-making by taking the long way. She spent 15 years as a professional journalist and in higher education public relations before she began painting seriously. Art-making has been her full-time professional focus since 2008. Lori has shown artwork in Omaha cooperative and commercial galleries, has had work accepted into regional and national juried shows, including the Nebraska Biennial (2023, 2019 and 2017), and has work is in private collections across the United States and in several countries. In 2024, two large paintings of Lori’s were selected by the ambassador to Burkina Faso in West Africa to exhibit for several years as part of U.S. State Department’s “Art in Embassies” program, making diplomatic connections through visual art. In 2023, the City of Omaha bought artwork she created in collaboration with artists Marcia Joffe-Bouska and Tom Quest for the downtown library branch. Lori has been awarded artist residencies at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Farwell House in Frederick, Illinois, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Cedar Point Biological Station. When she’s not exploring or gardening, you can usually find her working in her spacious second-floor studio at Hot Shops Art Center, a former mattress factory in Omaha’s north downtown, where more than 80 artists work in a wide variety of mediums.