Lopez, Ana Maria (b. 1974)
Found 1 Works by this Artist
(b. 1974)
Fort Worth, Texas
Ana M. Lopez is a metalsmith, educator and decorative arts scholar. Her creative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Recently, Lopez has had solo exhibitions at the Appalachian Center for Craft, and in 2018 at the Brookline Art Center in Boston, Massachusetts and at the Delaplaine Art Center in Frederick, Maryland. She was selected for a 2019 Maker-Creator Fellowship at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Winterthur, Delaware. She has lectured extensively on her own work as a presenter at the 2017 Society of North American Goldsmiths conference, the 2019 College Art Association Conference and 2019 Texas Metals Symposium. Ana is the author of the reference book Metalworking Through History: An Encyclopedia, published by Greenwood Press, as well as numerous other scholarly articles. She holds an MFA in Metalsmithing from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MA in the History of American Decorative Arts from The Smithsonian Associates and Parsons School of Design. She is currently Associate Professor of Metalsmithing and Jewelry at the University of North Texas and lives with her family in Fort Worth, Texas.
www.anamlopez.com