Pat Lowery Collins
Author, Poet, Painter
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The New Hampshire Commission on the Arts
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Malone
John R. Nuss
Peter Laird and Jeannine Atkins
Mary and John Burns
Anne Marie DeFelippo
Hitachi Corp., Tokyo, Japan and Manchester, NH
Pandick Press Bldg., Boston, MA
Alexander Fraser, Bell Labs, NJ
First New Hampshire Bank, Manchester, NH
SELECTED DISTINCTIONS
The Dorothy Perdue Collins Memorial Award, Excellence in Pastel, Northshore Arts Assoc.
The J. Tweed Hill & Josephine Petrus Memorial Award, Northshore Arts Assoc.
Charlotte and Alfred Movalli Memorial Award, North Shore Arts Assoc.,
The Nancy T. Baldwin Memorial Drawing Prize, HonorableMention, Concord Art Assoc.,
Trust Family Foundation Grant for Femina, New England College Gallery
First Prize, Drawing, "The Inspired Figure", Architect's Gallery, Warren, RI.
The Indian Head National Bank Award, 41st Annual, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
The E.F. Hutton Award, 5th New Hampshire Arts Biennial, Manchester, NH
Smithsonian Traveling Slide Exhibition, Allied Artists of America
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library, Books and Boulders
New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH , Femina
Ortho Pharmaceutical National Headquarters, Raritan, NJ
SELECTED INVITATIONALS
Flatrocks Gallery, Aggragate, Gloucester, MA
The River Gallery, Ipswich, MA
Trustees of Reservations, Castle Hill, Ipswich, MA, The Art of Essex County
The Millbrook Gallery and Sculpture Park, Concord, NH, Spring Exhibit
The Millbrook Gallery and Sculpture Park, Concord, NH, Strike A Pose
Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA, Children’s Book Illustrations
Artworks, New Bedford, MA, Drawn to Story
MPG Open Studio, Harrison Ave., Boston, MA
The Wenham Museum, Wenham, MA
The Concord Art Assoc., Concord MA, The Art of Drawing
The Concord Art Assoc., Concord, MA. Painters Running the Gamut
MPG, Newbury St., Boston, MA, Tell Me A Story
MPG, Newbury St., Boston, MA, Symbolic Woman
Firehouse Center, Newburyport, MA
The Marlboro Gallery, Boston, MA.
Howard Yzerski Gallery, Boston, MA, Imagining Angels
McGowan Fine Arts, Concord, NH, One of One
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Rocky Neck Art Colony, Here and Now, Gloucester, MA
The Gloucester Stage Company, SeaArts, A Place of Her Own
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Summer Solstice II
The Concord Art. Assoc., Francis N. Roddy Open Competition, Concord, MA
Essex Art Center, Annual Juried Shows, Lawrence, MA
The Silvermine Guild of Artists, Annual Art of the Northeast USA, New Canaan, CT.
Worcester Art Museum Faculty Show, Worcester, MA
Concord Art Assoc., Farewell to the 20th Century, Concord, MA
Library Arts Center, New Art: New England, Newport, NH
The Art Guild, Nudes Open Exhibition, Farmington, CT
Park Avenue Armory, ACI, NYC,
The Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Celebrating the "I", Cambridge, MA
The Currier Gallery of Art, many Annuals, Manchester, NH
Levy Gallery, 7th Annual Omer T. Lasonde Exhibitions, Manchester, NH
The Manchester Institute, 5th and 6th NH Arts Biennial, Manchester, NH
Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH, Regional Juried Exhibitions,
RECENT PRESS
Art New England, Jul/Aug 2014, Cape Ann, the Magic of Here, Susan Landry
EDUCATION
B.A. University of Southern California. Additional study in Los Angeles at UCLA and Choinard Art Institute and in Massachusetts at the DeCordova Museum School and Brandeis University.
AFFILIATIONS
Flatrocks Gallery, Gloucester, MA; Former Worcester Art Museum faculty; Member, Rocky Neck Art Colony; Professor Emeritus of the Writing Faculty, Lesley University low residency MFA program in creative writing; Presently a Post Graduate Thesis Advisor, Lesley University; Member, The Author’s Guild; Board Member of Pen N.E. Children’s Literature Caucus.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Pat is a poet and the prize-winning author of many books for children and young adults.