Cara Lawson-Ball

Cara Lawson-Ball is a Michigan-based artist known for her figurative bronze sculptures and abstract multimedia paintings. Her work is deeply inspired by the Great Lakes region—its landscapes, rhythms, and the communities that inhabit it. Drawing from years of hiking, canoeing, and observing nature firsthand, Cara creates pieces that reflect the quiet power of place and the human need for connection.
Her oil and cold wax paintings are rooted in slow, immersive experiences outdoors. They explore memory and presence through layered textures and shifting color fields—landscapes not meant to be literal, but deeply felt. Her figurative bronze sculptures, meanwhile, often explore themes of community, belonging, and the quiet strength found in shared experience.
After decades of working with the female form, Cara began to expand her focus to include the more universal spaces we all seek—those inner landscapes where we feel grounded and whole. Whether through sculpture or painting, her work encourages viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with both nature and themselves.

• Indiana University South Bend – BFA in Sculpture, 1999
• Oxbow School of Art, affiliated with SAIC – Metalworking, 1997
• St. Mary’s University, Notre Dame, IN – Business, 2013

Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2025 – Roti Roti Art Center, Buchanan, MI
• 2025 – Heartland Galleries, Plymouth, IN
• 2023 – Roti Roti Art Center, Buchanan, MI
• 2013 – Kenapochamocha, North Manchester, IN
• 2012 – Circa Arts Gallery, South Bend, IN
• 2003 – Wildlife Prairie State Park, Peoria, IL
• 2003 – Starved Rock State Park, Utica, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
• 2025 – South Haven Center for the Arts, South Haven, MI
• 2025 – Northern Indiana Artists, 1st Unitarian, South Bend, IN
• 2025 – Northern Indiana Artists, Heartland Gallery, Plymouth, IN - Judge’s Award
• 2025 – Indiana Women’s Caucus for Art, St. Mary’s Moreau Gallery
• 2024 – Heartland Art Galleries, NIA Members Show, Plymouth, IN – Judge’s Award
• 2024 – Roti Roti Art Center, NIA Members Show, Buchanan, MI
• 2024 – South Haven Center for the Arts, South Haven, MI
• 2024 – South Bend Museum of Art, Around the Bend, South Bend, IN
• 2023 – Roti Roti Art Center Members Show, Buchanan, MI
• 2023 – Heartland Annual Juried Regional Art Exhibition, Plymouth, IN – Purchase Award
• 2023 – Crooked Tree Arts Center Guild Member Salon Show, MI
• 2022 – Cass County Artists Exhibition – 1st Place
• 2021 – Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
• 2019 – Midwest Museum of Amer...