Lola Brooks

Lola Brooks is an educator specializing in jewelry. Brooks' works have been shown at places such as the National Ornamental Metal Museum, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and Talente and are held in the permanent collection of The Museum of Art and Design, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Education Brooks received her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from SUNY New Paltz where she studied with Jamie Bennett and Myra Mimlitsch-Gray. Career Brooks currently serves as visiting faculty at Cranbrook Academy of Art for 2015–2016 in Metalsmithing. Brooks was previously the Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair at the University of Georgia, and has also taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of the Arts, and SUNY New Paltz, as well as the 92nd St Y in New York City, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Penland School of Crafts. In April 2021, she held a solo exhibition, story of the eye: a subculture of ornamental oddities, at Sienna Patti Contemporary.