Between the Lines: Dwell Time
DWELL TIME: A MEMOIR OF ART, EXILE AND REPAIR
Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from the JTS Library
In her memoir, Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair, Rosa Lowinger, a leading sculpture and architectural conservator, interweaves the materials and science of her work with the
story of her Jewish Cuban family and their state of double exile: from Eastern Europe in the 1920s and then Cuba in early 1961.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rosa Lowinger is a Cuban-born American art conservator and founder of RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture, LLC, the United State’s largest woman-owned materials conservation practice. She is also a published author, most well-known for Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (Harcourt, 2005), a book on Havana’s pre-Castro nightclub era currently optioned for television by Keshet International.
She holds an MA in Art History and Conservation from NYU’s Institute of Fine
Arts, lectures regularly at numerous universities around the country, and serves on the boards of
the Amigos of the Cuban Heritage Collection at University of Miami, Florida Association of
Museums, the Partnership for Sacred Places, and the Florida Association of Public Art
Professionals.
