Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Lo, Beth |
Nationality or Tribal Affiliation |
American |
Dates & places of birth and death |
b. October 11, 1949, Lafayette, Indiana |
Education |
1971: B.G.S. in General Studies from the University of Michigan 1972: Ceramics, Eastern Michigan University 1974: M.F.A. in Ceramics from the University of Montana |
Places of residence |
Missoula, MT |
Notes |
Beth Lo is a ceramist and retired professor living and working in Missoula. Lo stepped in to teaching ceramics at the University of Montana after Rudy Autio retired in 1985. As an educator, she was awarded the University of Montana Provost's Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2006 and 2010. Lo has exhibited her work across the US and internationally, and has received numerous honors including: United States Artists Hoi Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship Grant, and a Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Her recently published children's book, co-written by her sister Ginnie Lo, Mahjong All Day Long, won the 2005 Marion Vannett Ridgway Award. Lo participated in Missoula Art Museum's Persistence in Clay Invitational. Solo and two-person exhibitions of Lo's work were presented at: Pewabic Pottery, Detroit Michigan Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri; Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota; Lane County Community College, Eugene, Oregon; and the Missoula Art Museum. She has received numerous honors including the United States Artists Hoi Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship Grant, a Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, and an American Craft Museum Design Award in 1986. Lo's work is held in public collections at: Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, Alfred, New York; Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington; and the Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana. For more information, please visit the artist's website: https://www.bethlo.com/ |
