ARTIST BIO
Born in Boston, MA, Laura Williams currently lives in North Carolina. She received a BA from the University of Vermont and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She spent twenty years working in New York where she built large scale props, dioramas for museums, worked in film and video and also created costumes for the reconstruction of the Bauhaus Dances by Oskar Schlemmer which premiered at the Guggenheim Museum. Highlights from her own work include: two solo shows associated with Click Photography Festival and the Durham Arts Guild at Golden Belt in Durham, NC; receiving the Jurors Prize-First Place, Pixel to Grain; Durham Arts Guild Gallery, and the Juror’s Choice Award at the Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, VA; and being a part of the Sixth Juried Annuale at The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film in Charlotte, NC. She was the the art director for Algonquin Young Readers and designed or art directed numerous award winning children’s books, including the Pura Bulpré award and a finalist for the National Book Award.