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About the Artist | More Art by Lauren

Fiber artist Lauren Camp’s innovative, award-winning pieces have been exhibited at performance spaces, on movie sets, and in cultural centers and museums in the U.S. and Europe. Her artwork and poetry have been featured in numerous publications, including the Santa Fean, Jazziz and World Watch, and the poetry journals Brilliant Corners and Impetus.

Her work is in the public collections of the United States Embassies in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan and Bamako, Mali; Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and St. Vincent Children’s Hospital of Indianapolis, Indiana, among others.

The City of Greeley, Colorado commissioned her to create four large works for the Jesus Rodarte Cultural Center (installed May 2005). She is currently working on a three-panel commissioned piece for Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Panorama City, California (to be installed June 2007).

Group exhibit highlights include the invitational Fiber Art Biennial in Chieri, Italy, the NAACP annual meeting, and a human rights survey exhibit entitled “Roots of Racism – Ignorance and Fear.” Her solo exhibit, a series of jazz portraits entitled “The Fabric of Jazz,” has been traveling to museums since January 2004. When the tour concludes in late 2007, the works will have been seen in ten cities.

She has been artist-in-residence at Working Classroom in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and at the New Brunswick (New Jersey) Public Schools, inspiring elementary and high school students from disadvantaged communities, and has mentored adults in creativity and self-expression.

The Surface Design Association provided a grant to help Lauren create “Need is a Voice,” one of the largest works in “Flinch: A Study of Your Self.” The Gaea Foundation of Washington, DC, an organization devoted to bringing marginalized voices into public dialogue, gifted Lauren with time and space — a two-month “Sea Change” residency (autumn 2004).

She is a founding board member of the Southwest Jazz Orchestra, and an audio producer and on-air jazz programmer for Santa Fe public radio station KSFR 90.7 FM . Frequently invited to read her poems, Lauren received first prize in poetry from the Southwest Literary Center’s 2006 New Mexico Discovery Awards.

To contact Lauren: lauren@laurencamp.com • To sign up for her free monthly newsletter, click here.