Artisans Asylum Speaker Series: Michele Lauriat

Join us for an Artist Talk with Artist Michele Lauriat Speaker Bio: Michele Lauriat is 2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Fellow, an Adjunct Professor at Boston College and a Visiting Lecturer at Mass College of Art. She earned a BFA in 2002 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and an MFA in 2011 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Michele loves being immersed in nature and has participated in Artist Residencies at Zion National Park, Walnut Canyon and Wupatki Point National Monuments, and Grand Canyon National Park. Michele works on paper using gouache as a primary medium. This past summer Michele was an Artist in Residence at Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center, where she made plein air drawings of the crater and hiked through the volcano’s debris field. She is currently in the process of making large colorful studio drawings of Mount St. Helens and the surrounding landscape that was impacted by the 1980 eruption.