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Carla Lobmier says, "I was born a reader in central Illinois where the reading is good. My B.F.A. in Painting/Drawing from Eastern Illinois University was supplemented with an Art History degree (more reading), followed by an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the University of Illinois. Following a residency in 1999 with the Studio Program at APEX ART in Manhattan, I moved to New York City. My teaching career spans Illinois, Tennessee and New York and includes Pre-Kindergarten children through university students. My paintings, drawings and collages have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are in the permanent collections of Tarble Arts Center, William Rainey Harper College, Sheldon Swope Museum and Whirlpool Corporation. There is a large influence of literature in my work. Poets are permitted the pursuit of the lyrical, the metaphor, beauty, the emotional connection. Can or should images do the same? Yes."