Lydia M. Peña (born 1934) is an artist and art historian, and is a Sister of Loretto.
She then worked at Loretto Heights College as the chair of the Art Department from 1965 to 1988, and became a full professor in 1986.
[1] Her dissertation focused on artist Agnes Tait McNulty and her work at the National Collection of Fine Arts at the Smithsonian.
She was on the board of the Rose Community Foundation, Rocky Mountain PBS, the Women's Forum, and on the Blue Ribbon Committee for the Design of Denver International Airport.
[2] In 2012, Peña curated an exhibit on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of Loretto at Denver Public Library.