Bio - About Laura Davidson


	BIO Laura Davidson is an artist who makes books, drawings, mosaics and boxes. She incorporates many types of materials in her work, including wood, paper, wax, metals, and objects found in her eclectic collections. Her interest in mosaic and other classical methods frequently show up in her work. Maps, art history, travel, architecture and her love of birds are recurring elements in her visual vocabulary. Laura Davidson grew up in Michigan, attended Michigan State University, and received a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Since that time she has been living and working in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood, a downtown warehouse district that is home to a vibrant arts community, with her partner and daughter. She has received several grants for her work, and her books can be found in private collections and libraries throughout the United States and around the world.
	AWARDS
	2008 2005 2000-2002 1998 1997 1996 1994 1994 1988	Fuller Museum Director’s Choice Award - FPAC Gallery A.R.T. grant, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation - book project grant Professional Development Grants, Massachusetts Cultural Council A.R.T. grant, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation - project grant Visual Arts Sea Grant, project grant, University of Rhode Island Mary Catherine Mooney Research Fellowship, The Boston Athenaeum Regional Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts/National Endowment Fellowship, The St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston Finalist, Massachusetts Artist Fellowship Program, Artists’ Books
	COLLECTIONS
		Bibliotecha Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA Boston Public Library, Print Department, and Rare Book Department, Boston, MA The British Library, London Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY The Cleveland Institute of Art, Gund Library, Cleveland, OH The Getty Center for the History of Art & the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The Museum of Fine Arts, William Morris Hunt Library, Boston, MA The National Gallery of Art, Library, Washington, DC The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library, Washington, DC The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Art Reference Library, Kansas City, MO New York Public Library, Prints & Illustrated Books Department, New York, NY The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL The Smithsonian Institution, Library, National Museum of American Art, Wash. DC The Tate Collection, Library and Archive, London Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Victoria & Albert Museum, The National Art Library, London Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Carnegie Mellon University, Library, Pittsburgh, PA Chelsea School of Art, Library, London Connecticut College, Charles E. Shain Library, New London, CT Dartmouth College, Rauner Library, Hanover, NH Florida Atlantic University, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton, FL Harvard University, The Houghton Library, and Fine Arts Library, Cambridge, MA Library of Congress, Rare Books & Special Collections Division, Washington, DC Library of Michigan, Lansing, MI Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Massachusetts College of Art, Morton Godine Library, Boston, MA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rotch Library, Cambridge MA Michigan State University, Special Collections, East Lansing, MI Mount Holyoke College Library, South Hadley, MA Northern Illinois University Libraries, Dealb IL Oberlin College, Clarence Ward Library, Oberlin, OH Rhode Island School of Design, Library, Providence, RI Rochester Institute of Technology, Wallace Library, Rochester, NY Savannah College of Art & Design, Special Collections, Savannah, GA Scripps College, Denison Library, Claremont, CA Simmons College Library, Boston, MA Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Northampton, MA St. Lawrence University Libraries, Canton, NY Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, PA Temple University, Paley Library Special Collections, Philadelphia, PA Trinity College, Watkinson Library, Hartford, CT University of Alberta, Bruce Peel Special Collections, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada University of California, Young Research Library, Los Angeles, CA University of Central Florida, Special Collections, Orlando, FL University of Miami, Richter Library, Coral Gables, FL University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Ann Arbor, MI University of New Mexico, Zimmerman library, Albuquerque, NM University of Iowa, Special Collections, Iowa City, IA University of Oregon, Knight Library, Eugene, OR University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Burlington, VT University of Virginia, Small Special Collections Library, Charlottesville, VA University of Washington, Allen Library, Seattle, WA Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Wellesley College, Margaret Clapp Library, Special Collections, Wellesley, MA Wesleyan College, Special Collections & Archives, Middletown, CT Western Michigan University Libraries, Kalamazoo, MI Yale University, Arts of the Book Collection, the Sterling Library, and the Beinicke Library, New Haven, CT Fidelity Investments WBUR Boston University Public Radio
	RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
	2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993	Influence, Inspiration, Insight: Contemporary Artists and Gertrude Stein’s Legacy, Stanford University Gallery, Washington, DC Artist Books from the Collection Smithsonian American Art Museum National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC Beyond the Book Willow Gallery LynnArts, Lynn, MA Artists’ Books: Books by Artists Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA More Back Forty Duxbury Art Museum, Duxbury, MA Interactive Art Abecederian Gallery, Denver, CO Bookarts Biennial, Bibliotecha Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt Beyond the Book, Honan Allston Library, Boston, MA Found in Fort Point, Art at 12, Boston, MA Book Arts Exhibition, Weber State University, Ogden Utah BeyondWORDS: Bookfest 2009, Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ Fort Point of View, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA Artists and Books, Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA Miniature Book Society, traveling show, www.mbs.org The Book as Art: Twenty Years of Artists Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Laura Davidson Books, The Museum School, Boston Artist's Resource Trust, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA Alternative Voices: Artists’ Books, Comix & Zines, Trinity College, Hartford, CT Trinity Inspired, Trinity Church, Boston, MA Built Books, The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (curated & exhibited) Beyond Color: 12 Artists’ Books, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA Grimm's Fairy Tails Revisited, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA Stand & Deliver, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT (traveling show) Suave Mechanicals, University of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor, MI New Members Collect, The Grolier Club, NY Artists’ Books at Evergreen Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Book as Art XIII National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Ex Libris, The Art Complex, Duxbury, MA Boston Artists and the Big Dig, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA Scrolls, Slats & Slabs - Many Faces of the Book, Brooklyn Public Library, NY Maps, Books & Buildings, McKillop Gallery, Salve Regina Univ., Providence, RI A Salute to Boston, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Vault Series: Bird Exhibition, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA Bookatecture, Astra Design, Richmond, VA Three Lives, Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA Fellowship Winners in Fort Point, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA The New Storytellers: One-of-a-kind Artists’ Books -Houghton Library, Harvard Object/Book: Explorations, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA New England Today, Chinese Cultural Institute, Boston, MA Science and the Artists’ Book, The Smithsonian Institute Library, Wash., DC Book as Art VII, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Contemporary Women Book Artists, Wellesley College Library, Wellesley, MA The Anthropomorphic Book, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY Milliseconds to the Millennia: The Art of Time, Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA Contemporary Prints & Illustrated Books: Recent Acquisitions, New York Public Library, New York, NY Why Artists’ Books? Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Building the Contemporary Book, Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN

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