Woodlands Academy Hosts “Women in the Arts” in March

Works by painter Lynn Lombard and photographer Colleen Plumb will be on exhibit at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart March 3-21 as part of the 2014 “Women in the Arts” program, which also will include a presentation by each artist.

Lombard will offer a “master class” at the school, 760 East Westleigh Road, Lake Forest, March 4 at 10:45 a.m. Plumb’s presentation is March 12 at 10 a.m. Both programs are open to the general public free of charge.

Lombard, an associate professor at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., is a landscape painter who works in the Midwest and in southern Spain. Represented by the Bowery Gallery in New York, she has had many solo and group shows both nationally and internationally. Lombard has received several research grants from Knox College, a Mellon Grant to Berlin and the Philip Green Wright-Lombard Award for Distinguished Teaching. In addition, she was a finalist for the Gottlieb prize. Her work is in the Sir Isaac Hayward Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, and the Collum Davis Library Bradley University Collection as well as several private and corporate collections.

Plumb  is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College, Chicago. Her photographic work focuses on examining the conflicting feelings humans can have toward animals and the contradictory, often absurd, sometimes tender ways these feelings are woven through the fabric of American culture. Plumb’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Fidelity Collection in Boston. It recently was featured in Time Magazine's LightBox, on the BBC in Brazil, and The New York Times LENS Blog. Radius Books published her first monograph, “Animals Are Outside Today,” in 2011. 

“Women in the Arts” has been a Woodlands Academy tradition since 2005, when parents of two alumnae offered to sponsor exhibits by two visiting artists. In addition to the exhibits, each visiting artist presented a “master class” to students taking studio art and photography. Because this initial event was so well received by the visiting artists and Woodlands students alike, the donors offered to make “Women in the Arts” an annual event.

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Founded in 1858, Woodlands Academy is an independent Catholic college preparatory day and boarding high school for young women, and part of a worldwide network of Sacred Heart Schools that spans 19 cities in the United States and 44 countries around the world.  A nonprofit, Woodlands Academy’s identity is rooted in Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat’s desire to inspire young hearts and minds to excel, to lead lives of integrity and to serve.  For more information about Woodlands Academy, please visit www.woodlandsacademy.org