Rate My Professor Carmen Lozar

Carmen Lozar is an Associate Professor of Art and Design and Director of the Merwin and Wakeley Galleries at Illinois Wesleyan University, positions she has held since 2006 and 2007, respectively. She also serves as Gallery Director and Instructional Professor. Lozar earned a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. In the Ames School of Art and Design, she teaches the glass courses. Lozar has always loved visual storytelling; whether sad, funny, or thoughtful, her figurative artworks are primarily about celebrating life. Her work follows the trail of daily life, transforming the mundane into the fantastic and embracing the absurd and extraordinary to provoke the imagination.

Lozar has taught workshops at Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Craft, Pittsburgh Glass School, the Appalachian Center for Crafts, the Chrysler Museum of Art, and the Glass Furnace in Istanbul, Turkey. She has completed residencies at the Corning Museum of Glass and Penland School of Craft. Her presentations include serving as keynote speaker and demonstrator at the 2008 International Flameworking Conference in Salem, New Jersey; presenting at the New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass conference in 2016; and at the Glass Art Society conference in Murano, Italy, in 2018. Lozar's work is exhibited throughout the United States, including at SOFA Chicago, Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Habatat Gallery, and Muriel Guepin Gallery. She is represented by Ken Saunders Gallery in Chicago and major galleries in Seattle. Her artwork is included in collections at the Bergstrom Mahler Museum in Wisconsin and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Lozar was named a “Rising Star of the 21st Century” by the Museum of American Glass.