January 2013- John F Kennedy Public Library For these works at the Piscataway Public Library I choose to use mixed media in a collage format.  I am interested in the ideas of re-use and up-cycling and most of the materials used in these works were found around my house.  Generally I make works that…

HANDS ON is a project created by artist Megan Lotts for the Scarlet Latte Café in Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.  For this project 750 one of a kind drawings were made on java jackets and circulated via warm drinking cups from the Scarlet Latte…

The Grilled Cheese Incident… a collaborative project- by Angela Aguayo, Megan Lotts, Howard Motyl, and Brady Smith Saturday May 5th, 2012- 301 W College, Carbondale, IL  62901 10:30pm – 2:15am

  Thinking of you…a project- by Megan Lotts Morris Library Rotunda Art Space March 1st– March 7th 2-4pm everyday Thinking of you… is an interactive art experience that works with the ideas of recycled materials, hand- made cards, and the US postal system.  During March 1st and March 8th I will appear daily for 2…

Love at the Glove- Carbondale, Illinois February 10th- 14th,  2011 Love at the Glove is an annual Valentines Day Art Show  at the Glover Factory on the Southern Illinois University campus in Carbondale, Illinois.  For this project I placed one Durex Love condom in each plastic vending bubble with a No Glove no Love sticker…

TALK: a self-portrait of the Artist/Fine Arts Librarian Megan Lotts At 7pm on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 I began recording myself.  I continued recording every word and sound I made for an entire week while wearing an audio capturing device around my neck.  I did not turn the device off until 7pm on Tuesday November…

Centsation September 3rd- September 30th  Morris Library Art Rotunda- located in the NE corner of the first floor, for more information please contact  Megan Lotts -Artist/Fine Arts Librarian at mlotts@lib.siu.edu or office phone (618)453-2663 ** no returns, no refunds, no exchanges and no complaints!”

EGGSpression: an art installation by Meggan Lotts EGGSpression is a salon style  art installation that explores the ideas of painting & drawing, collage, objects, and the notion of everyday life and mediums. As a trained painter, public artist, and fine arts librarian I constantly struggle with the idea of art, life, and the everyday.  I…

The FLOAT project consists of a series of brightly painted card board lotus flowers placed in the Forest pond. Because these objects/flowers float they will be moved by the everyday forces of nature and climate allowing them to be a free-flowing moving art installation. With this installation I’m working with the idea of recycling and…

Art-work, Controversy, and Walking the Raven Trail…by Forest Art Wisconsin Assistant Curator- Megan Lotts (essay from the catalog) Every Saturday morning for the last three months, I would pack up my camping gear, grab a good book, turn my computer off and head north with my dog, Ivan. Our weekly expeditions brought us to Minocqua,…

This Project was a collaboration with the University of Wisconsin EPS Program and was on display from June-October  2008 at the Washington DC Botanic Gardens.

WINTERGARTEN      This exhibition curated by Ute Ritschel took place in Darmstadt, Germany from October 27th to November 11th, 2007.  For one week 50 artists, representing 8 countries, worked together preparing gardens and greenhouses focusing on the theme winter in the garden and reflection on light. “Das Haus des bemalten Glases” (the house of painted…