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Madeleine Lord
Metal Art

Madeleine Lord started cutting steel sculpture in 1983 - in a night school adult ed. welding class at Shawsheen Vocational High School in Billerica MA. Her first public work "Revolutionary Figures" was installed at Fort Washington Park, Cambridge MA in 1987. It included four life size minutemen based on photos she took at re-enactments, and a figure of a woman representing the D.A.R. who in the late 19th century transformed the fort to a park.

In the past twenty years she has created both large public works as well as many small cut steel sculptures for homes or gardens. Her work has been included multiple summers at Chesterwood Contemporary Sculpture, and was featured in Sculpture Fest, Woodstock Vermont in 2002. New work will be included in Sculpture Fest 2012. 2003 she created a 9/11 Memorial , "The Enduring American Spirit" for the town of Whitinsville MA, and was one of 30 sculptors invited to design a garden installation for the City of Chicago's Millenium Park opening celebration.

Her recent work combines found scrap metal into figures, flowers and animals. A set of cut enamel steel bowties was included in a national traveling exhibit "Trashformations East" first shown at the Brockton Fuller Craft Museum in 2005.

She collaborated with another artist and they have a permanent work, "Seers", at the Forest Hills MA. Cemetery. She has also been included in juried exhibits at the Forest Hills site.

Recent work includes memorial portraits, and a garden installation based on children's artwork for the Lynch School in Winchester MA. She exhibits at the Patricia Carega Gallery in Center Sandwich NH, and the Millbrook Gallery in Concord New Hampshire. She is also in shows sponsored by the Cambridge Art Association, and has work in the CAA National Prize Show at the University Place in Cambridge MA - show opens in June.

Alumna of Sewickley Academy, Santa Catalina Monterey CA, and Smith College Northampton MA, Madeleine has an MBA from Lesley University, Cambridge MA. and works as an IT Contractor.