Lori Kay
Lori Kay also known as Lori Kay Stout is an American artist, educator and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is known for her sculptures made of mixed media and recycled garbage. Her work sometimes addresses issues of racial identity or mixed racial identity or issues of environmental awareness. She is also the owner of the Lupin Lodge of Los Gatos, a nudist resort.Career
Kay was born May 1, 1962 in San Diego, California to a Filipino father and a Caucasian mother. Sometimes her childhood and racial identity is the subject of her work.
In 1986, she received a B.A. in Art and Art History from the University of California, Santa Cruz with additional studies at the University of Geneva in 1984 and at the Muttenz Gymnasium in Basel in 1980-81.
From 1990 until 1999, Kay taught art classes with ArtsEdConnect through Arts Council Silicon Valley. From October 2003 until January 2004 she served as an artist in residency at San Francisco Recology.
Kay’s public art can be found in San Francisco, Seattle, Fremont, Half Moon Bay, Mountain View, Los Gatos and Bellevue, WA.
She was married to Glyn Stout, until his death in 2015.
