Featured Artist of the month
Each month we feature one artist from our Community Artists page here on our website, in our monthly newsletter, on Instagram, and on Facebook. We will also host an artist’s talk with them over Zoom so our audience can get to know them better. Check back at the beginning of each month for a new artist to learn about. And view artists from past months here.
May 2026: Michael Lowe
We are thrilled to present Michael Lowe as our Featured Artist of May 2026. Read on to learn about Michael and to see a selection of his artwork. Join us for an Artist’s Talk on Zoom with Michael on Thursday, May 28th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. Register ahead of time on Zoom by following this link.
A look back to bounce forward. Perhaps.
Thoroughly steeped in self-congratulatory Modern Art canonical history drivel and the mythology of the progressive ascendancy of the Post Modern, which culminated in the overly intellectualized faux nirvana of performance art and conceptual art, I arrived at the Leo Marchutz School of Painting & Drawing in the late 1980’s. Needless to say my enthusiasm to unlearn far outpaced any latent artistic talent that I possessed.
Thankfully, due to the warm patience, keen insights, and amazing grace of professors such as Billy, John, and Alan, a foundation of the vision of the whole was born in my artistic soul (as well as a bit of shaky technical aptitude). Ever since, their teachings have guided my haphazard artistic explorations.
By no means am I a professional artist. I consider myself more of a painting interloper and drawing day tripper in love with both life drawing and street art. I have been thoroughly disabused of any art world ambitions and have landed where I should be: a focused amateur, perpetually practicing; searching for the poetic union of materials and sensations where form, light, and love become one. I strive for this for no other reason than it’s fun to try and fail. Rinse and repeat.
Chapeau to the Leo Marchutz School of Painting & Drawing and your deep love of teaching the timeless. It is an honor to be so blessed by y’all. Merci.
- Michael Lowe, May 2026
Selected Work
Artist’s Talk on Zoom
Join us for an Artist’s Talk on Zoom with Michael on Thursday, May 28th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. Register ahead of time on Zoom by following this link.
Previous Featured Artists
To view featured artists from past months, click here.
April 2026: Aliandra Starre
March 2026: Brian Morrissey
February 2026: Suzie Buchholz
January 2026: Mary Wallman
October/November 2025: Susan Crapo (posthumously)
September 2025: Jennifer Warren
August 2025: Karen Silve
June/July 2025: Mary Hamilton
May 2025: Kayla Noble
April 2025: Michèle Hénot Gasparach
March 2025: Ciara Ruddock
February 2025: Barry Hart
December 2024/January 2025: Alan Roberts
November 2024: Ben Haggard
October 2024: Amelia Myre
September 2024: Becky Hagenston
August 2024: Paul Umbarger
June/July 2024: Featured Exhibition in Aix-en-Provence
May 2024: Sharon Rawlins
April 2024: Kate Butler
March 2024: Pauline Bétrancourt
February 2024: Jenna Grotelueschen
January 2024: Mary Leone Duffy
December 2023: Elizabeth Ivers
November 2023: Cole Carothers
October 2023: Grace Darden
September 2023: King David
August 2023: Chris Coffey
July 2023: Jim Toub
June 2023: Jennifer Neel
May 2023: Jan Brogan
April 2023: Sophia Hall
March 2023: Lucy Clare Spooner
February 2023: Samantha Van Heest
December 2022: Hilary Stein
November 2022: Nick Cruz Velleman
October 2022: Miranda Blas
September 2022: Samuel Bjorklund