Draft:Margaret Lazzari

Margaret Lazzari 's artwork has engaged a wide range of subjects in both realistic and abstract styles, including bodies, beauty , gender , power    , censorship , illness   and death. She has also produced pure abstractions and nature-based landscape works. Lazzari primarily paints, but has also produced audio-visual installations, and public sculptures , sometimes partnering with Lauren Evans.

Margaret Lazzari is an American artist, educator, and author, based primarily in Los Angeles, California. She is Professor Emerita of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design. Lazzari received her Master of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Exhibitions
Lazzari has had many solo exhibitions of her work including those at the Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, at the Fresno Art Museum , Riverside Art Museum  , and USC Fisher Museum of Art. As half of the Lazzari Evans Public Art design team, she has produced several public commissions, with themes that make evident the persistence of nature in urban environments.

Collections
Lazzari's works are in many public collections, including those of Angell Foundation, Los Angeles, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum, Cathedral Collection of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, Azusa Pacific University, Harrah's Casino, New Jersey, the St. Louis University Museum of Art, and Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama.

Publications
In addition to numerous magazine art reviews, Lazzari has authored or co-authored several popular art textbooks, including: Exploring Art: a Global, Thematic Approach ; The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist; Drawing; Life Drawing; and Art and Design Fundamentals. In contrast to traditional Art Appreciation texts, Exploring Art pioneered an innovative thematic, rather than chronological, structure and much greater inclusion of non-Western art.

Awards and honors
Lazzari's honors and awards for her work include a Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1995, and Distinguished Woman Artist, 2015, Fresno Art Museum Council of 100.

Other External References

 * 1) Table of Contents of Exploring Art at Cengage^
 * 2) Margaret Lazzari website
 * 3) Billis Williams Gallery website
 * 4) Lazzari and Evans Public Art website
 * 5) Angell Foundation website
 * 6) Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach Library of Congress record
 * 7) The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist Library of Congress record
 * 8) Drawing: a sketch and textbook Library of Congress record
 * 9) Life Drawing Library of Congress record
 * 10) Art and Design Fundamentals Library of Congress record