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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
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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 |
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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 |
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2007 |
Miniature Book Society, traveling show, www.mbs.org
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