Overtown
Miami, Florida
2006
Beloved Neighborhood of
Lotus House Women’s Shelter
Paper size: 10 1/8 x 14 inches
Image size: 6 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches
$900
Peggy Nolan was born in Albany, New York in 1944 and currently lives in Miami, Florida. She received her MFA from Florida International University. Her work is collected and exhibited by major institutions world wide, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. She has twice won the South Florida Consortium Individual Artist Grant and was selected for Light Work’s artist-in-residence program. She is a member of the Art and Art History Department of FIU. In addition, Peggy Nolan serves as the Art Director for the Lotus House Women’s Shelter and has photographed the Overtown neighborhood in which the shelter is located extensively.
...with deepest gratitude to Sotheby’s for making this special project possible and its long standing commitment to the Lotus House Women’s Shelter.