AWARDS

2016 Gold Medal: Most Outstanding Book Design: Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPYs): On Softer Ground: Paintings, Poems and Calligraphy
2015, 2016 Fine Arts Festival, Montgomery Village: First Place: Mixed Media
2015 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Coordinator’s Award, Black & White Show: What Spring Does to Jasmine

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Art House Hotel, Santa Rosa: Inner Work: The Art and Poetry of Sherrie Lovler
2019, 2011 Mario Uribe’s Seishin Studio, Santa Rosa
2018 Shige Sushi, Cotati
2017 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Caught in Time
2016, 2014 Corrick’s Stationery, Santa Rosa
2010 Graton Gallery, Graton, CA: Two As One

ART SHOW COORDINATOR

2017 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: International Calligraphy Show: Painted Words, Juror: Carl Rohrs

INVITATIONAL SHOWS

2020 Gallery Route One: Falling on and off the Page. Coordinator: Renée Owen: Marking Time: A Daily Practice Through the Pandemic (book)
2017 Letterworks International Calligraphy Conference: Faculty Show: Embracing Eternity
2016 6th Street Playhouse: Jack London Show. Coordinator: Carole Watanabe
2015 Studio 35, Sonoma, CA: Gratitude
2014 Ruth’s Table: Friends of Calligraphy, San Francisco
2014 Painted Letters: Eisemann Center, Richardson, TX
2014 Faculty Exhibit Letters California Style Conference, Los Angeles

JURIED SHOWS

2013–now Sonoma County Art Trails: juried open studio tours
2024 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: Strictly Abstract (online), Juror: Anthony Meier: Page from a Contemporary Illuminated Manuscript 12-28-23
2024 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: Dualities: Solitude
2023 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: Wabi Sabi: Emerging
2023 Graton Gallery: Anything Goes: Page from a Contemporary Illuminated Manuscript
2022 Art Fluent: Movement (online show): Days on End
2022 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Pulp: Book and Paper Arts: This Journey to Ixtlan
2022 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Reverberations II: Seconds
2022 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: Wabi Sabi: Muse in the Room Next Door, Inner Sanctum, An Auspicious Day (artist’s book)
2021 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: Wabi Sabi: The Winter of My Coming
2021 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Black and White: Our One World
2020 Arts Benecia: Get the Message: Words and Images: Soft Emergence (online)
2020 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: Golden Hour: Reuniting with Beauty
2019 Orangeland Gallery, San Francisco: Double Yellow: Contempletive Still Life
2018 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts: Wabi Sabi: Turning Point, Beauty
2018 Healdsburg Center for the Arts: Intertwined: Unravelling
2018 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Green: Earthly Things
2018 Calligraphies in Conversation 5th Annual International Exhibition: The Sacred Life
2018, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2005, 2000 Letter Arts Review Annual Competitions
2017 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Painted Words, juror Carl Rohrs: Spirit Rises
2017 Art Works Downtown, San Rafael: The Art of Abstraction: Frame of Mind, Love & Hope
2016 Graton Gallery: Anything Goes
2016 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Water Media Abstracts: Boundaries
2015 Sebastopol Center: Black & White, juror Paul Mahder: What Spring Does to Jasmine
2014 Fulton X Gallery: Urban/Suburban/Rural and Human/Nature: Maping the Sky
2013 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Not Just Landscapes: Landscape, Cityscape, Mindscape
2012 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Rooted: Rooted
2011 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Book Arts: Love Poems of Teishin and Ryokan

ARTICLES

2022 Still Point Quarterly: “The Meeting of Art and Poetry”
2021 Alphabet (Friends of Calligraphy, San Francisco): “Marking Time: A Daily Practice Through the Pandemic”
2021 Letter Arts Review: “Exploring Abstraction: An interview with Sherrie Lovler by Christopher Calderhead”
2017 Alphabet (Friends of Calligraphy, San Francisco): Featured article: “Going Wild: The Art of Sherrie Lovler” by Carl Rohrs

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

2023 Lily Poetry Review: Emerging, The Heart Remembers, Unfolding Beauty
2023 Redwood Writers 2023 Poetry Anthology: Cover art: Spirit Rises
2022 Sebastopol Center for the Arts: Reverberations II: Seconds
2018, 2019 West Marin Review: Inspiration painting, Crossroads painting
2018 California Quarterly: California State Poetry Society. Cover art and poem: Turning Point
2016 On Softer Ground: Paintings Poems and Calligraphy. Published by Ink Monkey Press
2010 Nice Rendition: Cheryl Wheeler’s Lyrics in Calligraphy: Hard Line to Draw
2007 Two As One with Anthony Lawlor. Published by Ink Monkey Press

COLLECTORS AND GALLERIES

Art House Hotel, Santa Rosa, CA
Calabi Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
Numerous private collections

WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA

artandpoetry.com
shop.inkmonkey.com
desiderata.com
Instagram: @sherrielovler
Facebook: facebook.com/poetryandart

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

1996–now Online websites selling my calligraphy prints: shop.inkmonkey.com and desiderata.com

1978–1986 Co-editor and art designer of back-to-the-land magazine, Homesteaders News

1978–1986 Co-creator of national back-to-the-land festival, The Good-Life Get Together

EDUCATION

• Continuing studies with master calligraphers from around the world

• Studied calligraphy as abstract painting with Dick Beasley, Northern Arizona University

• 2-week workshop with Hermann Zapf, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

• Studied calligraphy with Eleni Constantopolis, Rochester Museum of Art, NY

• BA in Studio Art, State University of New York at Oneonta

• Studied calligraphy at Christopher Columbus High School. Bronx, NY