Lowry Burgess Bio

Lowry Burgess is an internationally renowned artist and educator who created the first official art payload taken into outer space by NASA in 1989 among his many Space Art works. His artworks are in museums and archives in the US and Europe. He has exhibited widely in museums in the US, Canada, throughout Europe, as well as Japan. He is Professor of Art and former Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Distinguished Fellow in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon. He has founded and administrated many departments, programs and institutions during his 40 years as an educator in the arts. He has created curricula in the arts and humanities in the US and Europe while serving for twelve years on the National Humanities Faculty. For 27 years he has been a Fellow, Senior Consultant and Advisor at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he created and directed large collaborative projects and festivals in the US and Europe. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and several awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the Kellogg Foundation. He received the Leonardo Da Vinci Space Art Award from the National Space Society. His book, “Burgess, the Quiet Axis" received the Imperishable Gold Award from Le Devoir in Montreal. He has been featured in television and radio broadcasts in the US, Europe, Canada and Japan, and more than two hundred national and international radio broadcasts including 3 NPR broadcasts on his works.

	*Lowry Burgess, Professor of Art*
	Lowry Burgess is an internationally renowned artist and educator who created the first official art payload taken into outer space by NASA in 1989 among his many Space Art works. His artworks are in museums and archives in the US and Europe. He has exhibited widely in museums in the US, Canada, throughout Europe, as well as Japan. He is Professor of Art and former Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Distinguished Fellow in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon. He has founded and administrated many departments, programs and institutions during his 40 years as an educator in the arts. He has created curricula in the arts and humanities in the US and Europe while serving for twelve years on the National Humanities Faculty. For 27 years he has been a Fellow, Senior Consultant and Advisor at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he created and directed large collaborative projects and festivals in the US and Europe. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and several awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the Kellogg Foundation. He received the Leonardo Da Vinci Space Art Award from the National Space Society. His book, “Burgess, the Quiet Axis" received the Imperishable Gold Award from Le Devoir in Montreal. He has been featured in television and radio broadcasts in the US, Europe, Canada and Japan, and more than two hundred national and international radio broadcasts including 3 NPR broadcasts on his works.