Lorie Callahan
Founder of the Pastel Society of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
919-933-1033
callahanstudio@mindspring.com

Lorie Callahan, originally from Boston, Massachusetts, has painted and drawn since early childhood. She began her formal training at the Munson-William Proctor Art Institute Museum School in Utica, New York. Her undergraduate degree in studio art was awarded from the University of New York at Binghamton. Lorie continued with graduate study at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her study of portraiture was taken at the Pastel Society of America, National Arts Club in New York, and with renowned pastelist Daniel Greene. More extensive study was taken with Michael Del Priore, a nationally recognized master of portraiture and chairman of the Portrait Society of America, and with Frank Covino, master teacher of Italian Renaissance painting.

Lorie has exhibited nationally and internationally including the Pastel Society of America Annual Show in New York City, and the international exhibit of pastel paintings exhibited during the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She is often selected for the Annual Exhibit of North Carolina Women Artists held at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the Annual Exhibition of the Raleigh Fine Arts Society held at Meredith College in Raleigh. Lorie has also been included in the Duke Medical Center's Invitational and the Glaxo Invitational. She has received awards from the Durham Arts Guild and the Raleigh Fine Arts Society. Included in corporate and private collections in the United States and Japan, Lorie divides her time between landscapes and portrait commissions.