Mary Lou Asaro	Mary Lou Asaro has spent many years working in arts administration. Her degree from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in Economics and Business Administration was combined with her interest in the arts as she pursued her career. She served as director of the Galesburg Civic Art Center in Galesburg, Illinois, as well as being arts coordinator in community education for school district 214 in Illinois, wrote grants for arts programming for the Peoria County superintendent of schools in Illinois, designed web sites and served on numerous arts councils and boards.
A Midwesterner from Illinois, Mary Lou moved to Arizona in 1999 with her husband of over 30 years, who served as city manager of Prescott until his passing in 2003. Since then, Mary Lou has returned to her love of art taking numerous art courses at Yavapai College as well as printmaking workshops in the Southwest. She has taken printmaking, digital photography and digital printmaking and she has exhibited prints at the Prescott Fine Arts Association Gallery and the Yavapai College Gallery, winning “Best of Show” in the Fall 2007 Student Juried Exhibition. Traveling to many countries including Greece, Turkey, Russia, Lithuania, France, Israel and Jordan, Mary Lou has taken many photographs of interest. Some of these photographs have been developed into original prints with ImagOn, a process that produces a photogravure type of print similar to an etching. In this way she is able to combine her interests in photography, fine art printmaking and computer graphics.
Sample of Mary Lou's work.