Rosa Lowinger

About The Author

Rosa Lowinger is a Cuban-born American writer and art conservator. The author of Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (Harcourt, 2005) and Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure American Seduction (Wolfsonian Museum, 2016), she is the founder and current vice-president of RLA Conservation, LLC, one of the U.S.’s largest woman-owned art and architectural conservation firms. A Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation, the Association for Preservation Technology, and the American Academy in Rome, Rosa writes regularly for popular and academic media about conservation, historic preservation, the visual arts, and Cuba.

Books by Rosa Lowinger

Luisa of the Sea
By Rosa Lowinger and Todd Kessler
When a fierce ocean storm shatters the beloved seaside mural of Luisa the mermaid, a small fishing village loses more than a wall of color—it loses a piece of its heart.

In Luisa of the Sea, children rally alongside an art restorer to gather the broken fragments of the...
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Dwell Time
By Rosa Lowinger
What Kirkus describes as a "masterful revelation about life and art imitating each other in maintenance and repair" in a starred review, Dwell Time is an illuminating debut memoir by one of the few prominent Latinas in the field of art and architectural conservation; a moving por...
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