Lori Crawford

Lori Crawford is a professional artist and arts educator at Delaware State University for over 25 years. Crawford’s primary area of teaching is digital art and secondarily in African American Art History. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the country including solo exhibitions at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Biggs Museum of American Art, the Rehoboth Art League, and venues in Syracuse, NY, Gettysburg, PA, and Washington, DC. Lori Crawford’s artistic excellence was recognized twice by the Delaware Division of the Arts in 2024 and 2008 for earning a fellowship for Established Artist in Interdisciplinary Art and Works on Paper. Additionally, in 2021 Ms. Crawford was awarded an Artist Relief Grant from the DDOA. Crawford was appointed by Governor Jack Markell to the State’s Arts Council from 2011-2018. Currently, Ms. Crawford serves on the Board of The Biggs Museum of American Art. Lori Crawford was the first African American woman to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Computer Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work can be found in the collections of the Equal Justice Initiative, Paul R. Jones (The University of Delaware and the University of Alabama), Donald Byrd, the Baton Rouge Community College and other public and private collections throughout the country.