Extinct since 1918, the Carolina parakeet is the only parrot native to the eastern United States. The birds once numbered in the hundreds of thousands and travelled in colorful, raucous flocks of 200 to 300.

“Huia: A Story of Extinction” is exhibited in Women Eco Arts Dialog: The Legacy of Jo Hanson at YoloArts, The Barn Gallery, 512 Gibson Road, Woodland, CA from March 12 to June 18, 2020.

Brink is exhibited in “Feat to Fire: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage” at Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA from January 10 to February 9, 2020. Please join me for the opening reception on January 10 from 7 to 9 PM. 

I recently created the cover for The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, Rebecca Foust’s new book of poetry chronicling significant challenges facing young people today. I chose to use scratch art, a technique often associated with children, first laying down brightly colored shapes with crayons and then applying a coat of black tempera paint.

I had the pleasure of jurying “Winter White,” an exhibition at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley. The entries were first-rate and plentiful and the exhibition space is lovely. The Center offers studio space, workshops and more. I was impressed.

Please join us at ”The Marriage of Art and Text: Combining the Written Word and Visual Images.” Rebecca Foust and I will address the question, "How do artists and authors join forces to create a compelling statement?”

I’m pleased to share that Huia, my 2006 altered book created with artists Andree Singer Thompson, Henry Corning and Composer David Hindley, has been acquired by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Thanks to Richard Lang and Steve Woodall for their support.

Once the most abundant bird in the world, the last passenger pigeon died in 1914. Considered cheap meat, the birds were zealously hunted throughout their native North America. To tell this story, I collected clay pigeon shards from the Santa Clara Field Sports Park Shooting Range and configured them into bird-like forms.

I’m grateful to Dorota Brzozowska, Professor at Opole University, Poland, for including my work Bound to Please #35 in Chinskie Slady, her book about Chinese traces in Polish culture.

Thanks to Bethany Marcel for her review of Nostos. Her comments about my work: "I also enjoyed the visual art by Lorna Stevens, paintings that “reflect experiences of a journey home…..derive[d] from aerial photographs of the United States-Mexico border.”

Last May I was invited to contribute original images to Nostos, a new literary journal. The term “Nostos” refers to the experience of returning home after a journey, as in Homer’s The Odyssey. I was intrigued. 

Ostrich Feather Wedding Dress Project work clockwise from top left: Tom Van Houten, Cait Molloy, Judith Selby Lang, Marcela Pardo Ariza, Ray Beldner, Katherine Vetne, Evie Leder, Hadar Kleinman.

I'm pleased to present works in collaboration with Joanne Easton combining natural and man-made materials in “Common Dilemmas,” a “With the Earth” exhibition at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes, California.