Roberta Lowe is director and curator of Brick City Galleries at Missouri State University, where she is also a faculty member teaching in the Department of Art&Design. Roberta earned a BFA from Missouri State University in photography, drawing and art history, and an MFA from Indiana University in photography and art theory. She is formerly professor of art and humanities and director and curator of the Leonard R. Craig Gallery at Unity College in Maine. Roberta has curated and exhibited over 100 exhibitions of work by nationally and internationally respected artists including international designers Mehdi Saeedi, Alejandro Magallanes, Rafael Olbinsky, and Martin Majoor. She researches and collects maps, fragments of which she re-images with still-life materials and other media in order to investigate concepts of place and memory in drawings and hand-colored photographs.