biographie de Chyrl Lenore SAVOY (1944)

Birth place: New Orleans, LA

Addresses: Mamou, LA

Profession: Sculptor, educator

Studied: La. State Univ. (B.A., art); Acad. Fine Arts, Florence, with Gallo & Berti; Wayne State Univ.( M.F.A., sculpture).

Exhibited: 58th Exhib. Mich. Artists, Detroit Inst. Arts Mus., 1971; 1971 Artist's Biennial Exhib. of Artists of Southwest & Tex., NOMA, 1971 (purchase award), 1972 (solo); 27th Ann. State Art Exhib. Prof. Artists, La. Art Comn. Galleries, Baton Rouge, 1971; 14th Ann. Delta Art Exhib., Ark. Art Ctr., Little Rock, 1971.

Work: Our Lady Bayous Convent, Abbeville, La.; Herrod Jr. HS Libr., Abbeville; Mamou HS Libr., La. Commissions: renovation & redesigning of chapel, Dominican Rural Missionaries, Abbeville, 1972; sculpture, Our Lady Queen of All Saints, Ville Platte, La., 1972.

Comments: Preferred media: woods, metals. Teaching: asst. sculpture, Wayne State Univ., summer 1970.