CV

CV

b. 1968

Lives and works in Denver, CO

Education

2016   BA Creative Writing, poetry concentration, University of Colorado, Denver, CO

2016   BFA Painting, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO

1992   MS Audiology, multicultural program speciality, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

1990   BS Communication Disorders, psychology minor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Collectives, Workshops

2020   Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY

2019   Poetry Collective with Elizabeth Robinson and Andrea Rexilius, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver, Colorado

2018   Drawing Marathon with Michael Berryhill, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY

Exhibitions

2016   Ways of Seeing, Solo Exhibition, Three Cutters On Pearl, Denver, CO

2016   Will You?, Installation, Looks Deep Enough From Here, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO

2015   Clearly Obscure, Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, Denver, CO

2014   Poetry on the Wall, Auraria Library, Denver, CO

2014   Our School, Our City, Applied Learning Center, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO

2012   Night Images: Shape, Texture & Typography Studies, Arts Building, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO

2012   Pablo Neruda Poetry Festival and Art Exhibition, Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, Denver, CO

2008   Art for Ethiopia, Working with Artists Gallery, Lakewood, CO

Commissions

Various, private

Art Publications

2016   Thesis Portfolio, Will You?, Auraria Library, Denver, CO

Recent Poetry

2021 “In the High Atlas: A Rock Holding Water, poems 3) and 4),” and “Breaching Subject, Object,” New American Writing, No.39, 2021

2020 “In the High Atlas: A Rock Holding Water, poems 6), 8), 9), 10), 12),” E·ratio, May, 2020 http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/Groff.html

2019 “Inside a Time Grisaille,” where is the river :: a poetry experiment, Issue 14, Nov/Dec, 2019 https://whereistheriver.blogspot.com/2019/11/lori-groff-inside-time-grisaille.html

Continuing Education

Lighthouse Writers Workshop of Denver

Art From Ashes, Denver Writing Workshops

Art Students League of Denver

Logan Lecture Series at Denver Art Museum

Self-education and extensive art-related travel

Service and Volunteer Work

2023   Colorado Youth for a Change, AmeriCorps, K-3 Elementary Literacy Tutor

2016   Art from Ashes, youth empowerment art and poetry program, volunteer and guest artist, writer

Recognition

2022   BOMB Magazine, one of ten finalists, 2022 Poetry Contest