Donna Loraine Contractor


	2008

Donna Loraine Contractor: tapestry
Donna Loraine Contractor was born in Waukegan, Illinois and came to New Mexico to attend St. John’s College in Santa Fe. She moved to Albuquerque 20 years ago. She has won over 20 art competitions and commissions through the many state, county and city Public Art Programs. In 2005 Donna created the Bravos Award, a series of small weavings given to the award recipients. Contractor’s work can be seen at four New Mexico galleries: Mariposa Gallery and the Albuquerque Museum Gallery Store in Albuquerque, the Tapestry Gallery in Madrid, NM and the Weaving Southwest Gallery in Taos, NM as well as special exhibitions in the area.

Donna operates an Apprenticeship Program at her Nob Hill studio. To date there have been four apprentices, each for about two years and one has become a tapestry artist in her own right. She organized and put on a show “Mentors and Apprentices” at the

Albuquerque Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2005 with her current apprentice and her mentor Nancy Kozikowski to showcase this form of knowledge transmission. She has served on the selection committee for the Public Art sculpture Serpentina at the Albuquerque Airport and her tapestries are regularly donated for benefit shows.

In September 2008 Donna will be exhibiting at Arts Alliance Gallery along with John Garrett and Susan Skinner. The three artists, a weaver, sculptor and jeweler, randomly exchanged materials of equal value they purchased at local thrift and salvage stores. Their challenge was to use all of the items, supplementing them only with connective materials (glue, nails, thread, rivets, etc.) from their studios. The results are humorous, surreal, provocative and unexpected.

Images: Untitled; Blue Water Lily; Loosely Joine


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