Lisa painting among aspen trees. Photo by Nik House Media.

Biography

Lisa DeLosso is a Snowmass, Colorado-based artist, explorer, and nature lover. She grew up along the beaches and in the pine forests of southern coastal New Jersey. She finds joy and inspiration in hiking, cycling, skiing, birdwatching, and fly fishing. She also enjoys the tactile and natural aspects of sketching, nature journaling, and reading outside.

She received her undergraduate degrees from Pennsylvania State University in art education and art history, and her master’s degree in art education from The University of Texas at Austin. She has teaching and curriculum development experience as both a kindergarten art teacher and as a museum educator.

Lisa is an alumna of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and NOLS’ Wilderness Medicine Institute. She bicycled over 4,500 miles from Austin, Texas, to Anchorage, Alaska, as part of the 2009 Texas 4000 for Cancer team. In 2012, she summited Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa with the non-profit group, Survivor Summit. She founded Adventure Book Club®, a social opportunity for adults who like to read outdoor, travel, and adventure-based fiction and nonfiction books in 2014.

She has served on the Red Brick Center for the Arts Gallery Committee in Aspen, Colorado and the grants panel for Colorado Creative Industries' annual "Colorado Creates" grant program. She has also been a panel participant at the 2023 State of the Arts Symposium at The Arts Campus at Willits (TACAW).

In 2024, she was one of only five finalists to be in consideration to design the annual poster for MOUNTAINFILM, a film festival founded in 1979 in Telluride, Colorado to celebrate the indomitable spirit. She was also awarded a 2024 painting and drawing scholarship from Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado.