She finds the experience of sharing stories through the spoken word to have a profound power to enlighten and educate and conducts storytelling workshops for adults and teachers. Through her school residency programs, she helps children to tell and write their own stories. Lorraine particularly enjoys combining art and story in unique hands-on workshops for children and adults. She lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York State.

Click here to watch Lorraine tell stories.
What's New
Lorraine is presenting two expressive arts workshops with Denis O'Connor Whalen in the near future:

• Discovering the Interplay of Storytelling and Expressive Arts Workshop
  Creative Arts Therapies Conference: Discovery, Change, and Growth Using the Creative Arts Therapies April 5, Academy of the Holy Names, 1075 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, New York Click here for a description of this workshop and conference.

• Tending the Fire of Imagination – Expressive Arts and Storytelling Intersect Workshop
  2013 National Storytelling Conference, August 1-4, Richmond, VA
  Click here for a description of this workshop and conference.

Lorraine is now part of the Creative Aging Teaching Artist Roster for Lifetime Arts! Lifetime Arts fosters lifelong learning in and through the arts by increasing opportunities for participation in intergenerational and community based programming.