Background
Nawara, Lucille Procter was born on June 26, 1941 in Oklahoma City. Daughter of Leland Herrick and Alice McElroy Procter.
Nawara, Lucille Procter was born on June 26, 1941 in Oklahoma City. Daughter of Leland Herrick and Alice McElroy Procter.
Bachelor, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1962. Bachelor of Fine Arts equivalent, Boston University, 1967. Master of Fine Arts, University Illinois, Champaign, 1969.
Assistant professor drawing Wayne State University, Detroit, 1969—1976. Instructor painting, drawing Macomb Community College, Mount Clemens, 1977—1984, 1991. Instructor watercolor College Creative Studies, Detroit, 1982—1984, Center Creative Studies, 2006—2007.
Artist-in-residence Fraser Public Schools, 1983—1986. Visiting artist painting Cranbrook Academy Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1992. Art instructor Birmingham-Bloomfield Hills, 2003—2006.
Assistant Institute Contemporary Art, Boston, 1965. Exhibition coordinator Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, 1980. Director Nawara Art Gallery, Walled Lake, Michigan, 1986—1988.
Owner, designer, installer Nawara Landscapes, since 1992. Concert-mistress Bach Society Orchestra, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966—1967. Artist-in-the-parks resident National Park Service at Sleeping Bear Dunes, Empire, Michigan, 1998.
Artist-in-the-schools resident Fraser Public School-Michigan Council for Arts, 1983—1986. Adjunct instructor watercolor Center Creative Studies, Detroit.
Co-president board Detroit Focus Gallery, 1991—1992. Founder, chairperson Present for the Arts in Detroit, 1980—1986, Wayne Park Committee, Detroit, 1978—1983. Co-founder, co-chairperson Project Retree, 1977—1979.
Married James Edward Nawara, December 15, 1968. Children: Juliet Glinski, Stephen Procter;1 child Todd Keenan (deceased).