Five Citizens (LaMar)

LaMar had devoted her lifetime to the arts as a patron, a curator, a museum director, an activist, and mentor to young artists. While most of her professional career has revolved around the visual arts, music is “really big” in her life. Trained in piano at Cornish, chamber music is a particular favorite of LaMar’s “Because it is so clear, there are no questions left in your mind when you’re done listening.” Since she is hard of hearing if there is conflicting background noise, she especially loves the quiet that comes between the sounds as in work by Schubert

 

Animals are another passion. She says if she could be an animal, it would be a crow because they’re “fun-loving and mischievous.” Intellectual stimulation is a constant pursuit for LaMar. She reads and watches educational television and is particularly concerned about overpopulation and its effect on animal habitat.

Words LaMar lives by: “Quality and democracy (as in populist) but they conflict with each other like mad.”