Bio - About Laura Davidson


	BIO Laura Davidson is an artist who makes books, drawings and boxes. She incorporates many types of materials in her work, including wood, paper, wax, metals, and objects from her eclectic collections. Her work often references maps, art history, and reflections upon the passage of time. She 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 artist community. 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
	2005 2002 2001 2000 1998 1997 1996 1994 1988	Artists Resource Trust Fund, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Professional Development Grants, Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grants, Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grants, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Resource Trust Fund, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Visual Arts Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island Mary Catherine Mooney Research Fellowship, The Boston Athenaeum Regional Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, The St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston Finalist, Massachusetts Artist Fellowship Program, Artists’ Books
	COLLECTIONS
		Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA Boston Public Library, Print Department, and Rare Book Department, Boston, MA British Library, London Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Carnegie Mellon University, Library, Pittsburgh, PA Chelsea School of Art, Library, London Cleveland Institute of Art, Gund Library, Cleveland, OH Connecticut College, Charles E. Shain Library, New London, CT Dartmouth College, Rauner Library, Hanover, NH Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA Fidelity Investments Getty Center for the History of Art & the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA Harvard University, The Houghton Library, and the Fine Arts Library Cambridge, MA Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Massachusetts College of Art, Morton Godine Library, Boston, MA Michigan State University, Special Collections, East Lansing, MI Mount Holyoke College Library, South Hadley, MA Museum of Fine Arts, William Morris Hunt Library, Boston, MA National Gallery of Art, Library, Washington, DC National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library, Washington, DC Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Art Reference Library, Kansas City, MO New York Public Library, Prints & Illustrated Books Department, New York, NY Oberlin College, Clarence Ward Library, Oberlin, OH Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery, Andover, MA Rhode Island School of Design, Library, Providence, RI Rochester Institute of Technology, Wallace Library, Rochester, NY Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL Smithsonian Institution, Library, National Museum of American Art, Wash. DC Scripps College, Denison Library, Claremont, CA Simmons College Library, Boston, MA Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Northampton, MA Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, PA Tate Collection, Library and Archive, London Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Victoria & Albert Museum, The National Art Library, London 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 Michigan, Special Collections Library, Ann Arbor, MI University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Burlington, VT University of Washington, Allen Library, Seattle, WA Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Harford, CT WBUR Boston University Public Radio 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, Sterling Library, New Haven, CT
	RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
	2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993	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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