Lori Ann Levy-Holm, born on Long Island, NY in 1960 and educated in Pennsylvania, Italy, and England, currently lives and works in Valencia, California.  After completing a BS in Art Education, which included a year in Rome studying clay sculpture under Paolo Carsone at Tyler School of Art, she spent two years in the states apprenticing to sculpture and production potter David Davis.  The following year she moved to England to serve another apprenticeship at Rooke’s Pottery in Ipstones and worked as a demonstrator potter at the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton.  An independent study with Derrek Emms at the Stoke-on-Trent Polytechnic supplemented the industrial skills she acquired at the living museum.  After returning to the US, Lori Ann maintained a studio and exhibited on the east coast, primarily clay paintings and functional ware in galleries and through the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen as a juried member.  Lori Ann returned to her original passion of drawing and painting after the birth of her second child in 1993.   She continues to work in various mediums and her paintings currently posses a third dimension, as they are reminiscent of dioramas or shadow boxes.