Lola Sandino Stanton
Lola Sandino Stanton is originally from Bluefields, Nicaragua. She attended college in the US through a scholarship from the Institute of International Education. After graduating from college, she worked as a photographer and for most of her working life she wrote, photographed, and produced educational materials. In 1997, she received her master’s degree in Art Education from the City College of New York.
After retirement from teaching art in the Bronx public schools, Lola studied at The Art Students League of NY with Cornelia Foss and became a full-time painter. In 2013 she was accepted as a member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and started exhibiting with them. In 2017 she had her first solo show at The Interchurch Center in NY City with an exhibition of portraits of Latino youth. Lola has also exhibited with Taller Boricua, The Salmagundi Club, The Hudson Guild Gallery and Hunter East Harlem Gallery among others. She looks forward to exhibiting with the Neo Latino Group as a new member.
Lola favors portraiture in oils. While she is painting a face, she is one with the person, and there is an exhilaration that comes from attaining the details needed to capture the likeness and character of the person. Lola is in the process of painting a new series of portraits of LGBTQ people.
Lola has received several awards exhibiting with NAWA, including First Prize at a group show at the Monmouth Museum in March 2022. Other awards include The Nawa Medal of Honor in 2014 and 2016, the Elizabeth Stanton Blake Memorial Award in 2015 and the Solveig Stromsoe Palmer award in 2021 for Portrait in Oil.
