Lynne Streeter is a contemporary sculptor who divides her time between Pietrasanta, Italy, and Oakland, California. She received a BFA from San Francisco State University in 1976, an MA and MFA from University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and 1981. Having been awarded a Rotary Club Scholarship to work in a fine art bronze foundry in Pietrasanta, Italy, in 1981, Lynne moved there and continued to work in various marble studios and bronze foundries until 1985. When she returned to California in 1985 she founded the Marble & Art Institute, which was established to offer instruction in marble sculpture techniques in Pietrasanta during the summer months. Lynne has been organizing and directing these workshops since that time. She has been the recipient of other honors and awards, including among others: German Academic Exchange (D.A.A.D.) Award in the Fulbright package; University of California at Berkeley Eisner Award for Creative Achievement; and Silver Lion Award for 16mm Documentary Film of Lacandon Indians at Venice Film Festival in Italy.
Lynne has shown her bronze, marble, and fiber sculptures in both one-person and group exhibitions in the United States, Germany, and Italy. The following are some selected exhibition sites. In the U.S. her shows include the Oakland Museum, Los Angeles Pacific Design Center, Chicago Mano Gallery, Stinson Beach Anna Gardner Gallery, San Francisco Hatley-Martin Gallery, Richmond Art Center, San Francisco Contract Design Center, Los Angeles Women's Building, San Antonio Southwest Craft Center Gallery, Sacramento Crocker Gallery. In Germany she showed at the Munich Art Academy and the Munich Modern Art Gallery. Exhibitions in Italy include Pietrasanta Sant'Agostino Cloisters, City of Portovenere, Portovenere Galleria D'Arte La Balestra, City of La Spezia, City of Forte dei Marmi, Milan U.S. Information Service.
This sculptor has also curated many group art exhibitions in both Italy and the United States. She was responsible for a recent exhibition at the Italian-American Museum in San Francisco at Fort Mason that showed the work of a local Pietrasanta artist. There have been many publications and reviews that discuss her art and her sculpture workshops in many languages. Among them are Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Craft Horizons, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, Channel 5 (KPIX San Francisco), Der Stern, Brigitte, Berlingske Tidende, Il Tirreno, La Nazione, La Repubblica, Pietrasanta Informa, Versilia Oggi, Il Corriere della Versilia, RAI 1 Italian television.
Some further biographical notes: Lynne Streeter participated in an American Friends Service Committee in a small village near Hermosillo, Mexico, in 1966. She lived in Mexico City and studied anthropology 1966-67. She lived in a Lacandon village in Chiapas, Mexico, where she co-directed and produced a documentary film about the lives of these people 1967-71. Lynne lived in Keams Canyon, Arizona, and worked on a documentary film about the Navajo-Hopi land dispute 1972-73. She was advisor and collaborator for a ceramics and printmaking school near Urbino, Italy, 1989-91. She has worked as consultant and agent for fine art and architectural contracting in Italy, San Francisco, and Honolulu 1990-95. Lynne created and directed other sculpture workshops in Loire Valley, France; Tinos, Greece; and Barcelona, Spain 1994-2001. She was a founding member and chair of Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, based in San Francisco, and a member of National Association of Women Artists. In her studio in Oakland, California, Lynne conducts stone carving workshops when she is in the U.S. She is the founder and director of Marble & Art Workshops, Pietrasanta, Italy, a school of marble sculpture currently in its 18th year. She just completed a seven foot tall bronze sculpture of Bacchus for a private collector.