Lisa Crane

Lisa Crane is a sculptor living in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her years of work as a psychotherapist, court-appointed expert witness and child advocate, working with victims of abuse in Miami, California, and the mountains of North Carolina, led her to embrace the efficacy and power of art as expression and catharsis. 

In 2018, Crane was awarded recognition for her work Follow Me Into Your Dreams, exhibited at the Ridley-Tree Museum of Art at Westmont College in Montecito, CA. Also in 2018, she exhibited at the L H Horton Gallery in Stockton, CA. In 2018, she produced a room-sized installation which debuted in 2019. 

Most recently, she was a solo artist at Tennessee Tech’s Joan Derryberry Art Gallery, exhibiting her revelatory installation, Trophies. Trophies is a life-sized, 17 piece installation of nude women participating  and celebrating each other in a protest march. Trophies highlights the history of women’s role in advancing their equality through the protest march, the beauty of the unaltered, unretouched female body, and society’s unwillingness to acknowledge the political, economic, and societal limitations inherent in being female. 

Crane studied art history and sculpture at Miami Dade College and has continued her sculptural education through workshops with fellow artists Lisa Clague, Debra Fritts, Susannah Zucker, and Natasha Dikareva, and others. She lives and works at her home in Raleigh, NC where she lives with her two pups in a log cabin on the edge of the woods.

Awards

Newborn - 2nd Place, 2020 Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art

Follow Me Into Your Dreams - Honorable Mention, 2018 Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art