Loren Schwerd is an artist and educator based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work uses handcraft to transform found and foraged materials to obscure distinctions between organic and synthetic matter and reflect the discordant relationship between nature and culture. Schwerd earned her MFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University and her BFA from Tulane University. Her work has been exhibited at the Luckman Gallery at California State University, the Center for Craft Creativity and Design in North Carolina, The Columbus Museum of Art, in Georgia, the La Triennale di Milano Design Museum in Milan, and the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans. Her works have been featured in FiberArt Magazine and Artistry in Fiber, Vol. 2: Sculpture, from Schiffer Publishing, She has been awarded residencies from Art Omi, the Djerassi Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Center.
Schwerd teaches sculpture at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
photo by Jeremiah Arias