Who is Laurie?
Laurie is an independent artist and writer with an interdisciplinary practice. In the studio, she explores ideas inspired from her readings, writings, and research, particularly around topics of memory—remembering and forgetting, saving and erasing. She questions most everything with a quirky perspective of how to fix, mend, repair, salvage, or stitch back together an unraveling story, a memory that is slipping into disrepair, creating new stories from fragments.
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With more than 30 years of experience, Laurie is a mixed-media artist and published writer.
Education:
MFA • Belmont University, Nashville TN • 2024 • Grant recipient
BA • Lipscomb University, Nashville TN • Art advertising and English • Cum laude graduate 1991 • Merit scholarship recipient
University of Georgia, Athens GA, Painting, 1989
Kennesaw State University College, Kennesaw GA, English, 1988
Lassiter High School, Marietta GA 1988
Juried Exhibitions:
“The 28th Annual Student Exhibition” in Gallery 121 at the Leu Center for the Visual Arts
Received award from the Frist Center for mixed media installation, “Conspiracy of Silence”
“The Chestnut Group” member show, 2022
Group Shows:
“Practice and Persistence” MFA Alumni Show 2026 with “Nashville to Boston”
“Small Works” at Las Laguna Art Gallery 2025 with “Nest, House, Shell, Mother”
“Rhizome for President” thesis show in Gallery 121 at the Leu Center for the Visual Arts 2024
“Rhizome for President” at Coop Gallery 2024
“Translations” group show in The Packing Plant 2023
Press:
“Art: Crawl Space,” Nashville Scene, July 4-10, 2024, Volume 43, Number 23
“Rhizome for President,” https://www.coopgallery.org/exhibitions/rhizome-for-president
“Susie and Dad,” Radar Poetry, Issue 44, https://www.radarpoetry.com/seen
Art Memberships:
The Chestnut Group
The Textile New York Study Group
More About Laurie:
During her professional career, Laurie was Co-Founder, Creative Partner and Copywriter of FMS (2004-2021) and Co-Founder of FMS Consulting (2021-present). She specializes in creating brand personalities, brand language and brand alignment. She has held several creative roles for clients in banking, publishing, health care, education, technology, and nonprofit sectors. Her experience gives her a broad perspective of various cultures and diverse audiences.
Laurie is a published author and illustrator in numerous magazines and national publications. She has participated in juried art shows and her work is held in private collections across the country. Laurie is an active member of the Textile Study Group of New York. Laurie’s community involvement includes volunteer service for Americans for the Arts & Arts Action Fund, Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum, Twelve3One Ministries, and TriiiState. She serves as a member of The Chestnut Group society of painters, and has participated in the international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta and civic art club Alpha Rho Tau.
Laurie resides in Nashville, Tennessee and enjoys painting, writing, reading, playing the piano, walking, swimming, traveling and spending time with her family.