Laurie's profile
One of the paintings in my portfolio depicts a thesis about the possible influence of Native American women's clothing on modern women's dress. I'm currently researching and writing on the topic for an educational publisher. I've always moved easily between media and forms. I’ve returned to Baltimore from Washington, DC, where I worked on contract at the National Museum of the American Indian and other Smithsonian museums, mostly in the digital arena. For many years I composed images quickly for large audiences as a news illustrator/producer for the Associated Press, and raised a son. I graduated from MICA with a BA in multimedia, drawing and animation, and hold a master’s in museum studies from Johns Hopkins University. I was a founding member of Impossible Theater, a collaborative Baltimore-based company using computer controlled projection (disbanded following performance in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival and residency at the Banff Arts Center, Canada), co-directed a large community mosaic (Takoma Park) and taught art to K-8 kids at a small Quaker school. I’m happy to be back in Baltimore and painting.
