Loretta Lowry was the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Coordinator from 1988/9 to 2002. Lowry grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and attended Cornell University for undergraduate and the University of Pennsylvania for her graduate work. She began working for SFMOMA in 1988 as a volunteer for the coordinator of the Modern Art Council. Lowry went in to apply for the coordinator position for SECA after being encouraged by Ann Roth, the president of the Modern Art Council at that time. She worked on the Art Award presentations and various other awards regarding media, photography, film, video and new technology. In 1995 she left that position and went onto the SECA Council where she served as chairman for a few years. In this interview, Lowry discusses her first job at SFMOMA, work as coordinator of SECA, changes in SECA over two decades, curatorial selection, relationship between galleries and SECA, Toi Hoang, Barry McGee,D-L Alvarez, Anne Appleby, SECA and museum curators, efforts to rename SECA, Cheryl Riley and SECA and SFMOMA acquisitions.