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Authors and Artists

Each book written, each artistic endeavor demonstrates the vision of Loretto members as they share their artistic gifts with the Community and beyond. Learn more about our Loretto Authors and Artists.

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Roberta Hudlow SL shares art of teaching and seeing everyday beauty

By Loretto Community / November 17, 2025 /

Roberta Hudlow SL stands among the Loretto Community’s most prolific artists and inspiring art teachers.  Roberta has taught art in many Loretto schools, including Nerinx High School and Marian Middle…

Artists bloom at Loretto Motherhouse

By Loretto Community / October 9, 2025 /

Since 2022, the Loretto Motherhouse has partnered with Kentucky Foundation for Women to offer residencies to artists living in Kentucky through the Loretto Artist Residency Program. Residencies are for literary,…

Author Reading & Book Signing with Dora Rodriguez, border activist and author

By Loretto Community / October 7, 2025 / Comments Off on Author Reading & Book Signing with Dora Rodriguez, border activist and author

You are invited to an Author Reading & Book Signing with Dora Rodriguez, border activist and author of Dora: A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain Dora: A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain…

Elaine Marie Prevallet SL: Spiritual writer, mystic, humble of heart

By Loretto Community / August 29, 2025 /

“For those of you who do not know anything about Elaine Prevallet, let me just tell you that she is well known in the Loretto Community as a spiritual writer,…

The amazing artistry of Jeanne Dueber SL

By Loretto Community / August 16, 2025 /

My work continues to be organic and, more specifically, rooted in the human figure. However, I frequently stay at the cutting edge of the purely abstract and the real, sometimes…

A woman and her camera: Peg Jacobs CoL, capturing Loretto

By Loretto Community / July 14, 2025 /

Peg Jacobs – photographer extraordinaire. Anyone who has seen the photography of longtime Loretto Co-member Peg Jacobs knows that her images evoke something significant deep within every viewer. Her photographs…

English Elm Tree

By Sister Anndavid Naeger SL / May 21, 2025 /

Sr. Anndavid Naeger wrote this week about the beautiful English Elm tree on the Motherhouse Campus. For many years, Anndavid has written a newsletter called “Our Days at Loretto Motherhouse”…

Press release: Kentucky Foundation for Women announces Winter/Spring 2025 Loretto Artist Residents

By Loretto Community / April 14, 2025 /

Posted in Link NKY April 11, 2025 KFW (Kentucky Foundation for Women) is excited to announce the recipients of the Winter/Spring 2025 Loretto Artist Residency Program, a partnership between Sisters…

Loretto Magazine – Winter 2025

By Loretto Community / March 10, 2025 /

Download Read Loretto Magazine Loretto Spotlight Video – Loretto Leadership A letter from President Buffy Boesen SL As the newly-elected president of the Loretto Community, I invite you as you…

Art for the sake of justice and peace

By Loretto Community / March 10, 2025 /

There is a ‘relationship between art and religion, there’s no question; it’s all one kind of spiritual experience.’– Bob Strobridge Bob Strobridge CoL has designed and sewn bold, colorful banners…

Kentucky Foundation for Women announces 2024 summer/fall Loretto Artist Residents

By Loretto Community / October 21, 2024 /

Published October 19, 2024 by the Kentucky Standard. Kentucky Foundation for Women is excited to announce the recipients of the 2024 summer/fall Loretto Artist Residency Program, a partnership between Sisters…

‘Upon This Hill’ – Poem by Cecily Jones SL

By Loretto Community / September 18, 2024 /

From “Mostly for Promise: Poems by Cecily Jones SL,” published 2013 Reflections of Isabella Clarke on the Sisters’ Transfer from Little Loretto to St. Stephen’s Farm, November 1824 After the…

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