Laura Glazer
Artist in Residence
September 2024
Laura Glazer is an artist whose work is socially engaged and depends on the participation of other people, sometimes a close friend, and other times, complete strangers. Her background in photography and design informs her social practice, and her projects appear as books, workshops, radio shows, zines, festivals, exhibitions, installations, posters, signs, postal correspondence, and sculpture.
She holds an MFA in Contemporary Art Practices: Art and Social Practice from Portland State University (PSU) and a BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology.
‘I Want Everyone to Know’ event and book launch with Ms. Adams at KSMoCA
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Salem Art Works (NY), Albany Center Gallery (NY), and the Opalka Gallery of the Sage Colleges (NY). Her photography work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the BBC.
Her recent projects include a city-wide poster campaign honoring an under-appreciated film director (Agnès Varda) in collaboration with Jennifer “JJ” Jones, an artist residency at a movie theater, an award-winning community radio program, and a collaboratively researched and developed performance and exhibit about a turn-of-the-century Portland poet. Her book of photographs and interviews I Want Everyone to Know: The Black History Month Doors at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School was published by Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA) in April 2022. She was in the inaugural cohort of artist fellows at the New York Public Library Picture Collection and documented her project in a book called See Also: Making Friends in the New York Public Library Picture Collection. Since 2022, she has co-facilitated a weekly autobiography writing and publishing workshop in a men’s prison as part of Some People Press.
“See Also: Making Friends in the New York Public LIbrary Picture Collection,” a book by Laura Glazer
She is an adjunct instructor in the Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design at PSU, and the Program Manager and Design and Publishing Director for KSMoCA. Born in northern Virginia, she was a longtime resident of upstate New York and is currently based in Portland, Oregon.
Collections Referenced by Laura Glazer
Erica Van Horn papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/1844.pdf
Books Chosen for the Lab Library by Laura Glazer
Between The Lines: Stories from the Underground by Uli Beutter Cohen
Portraits and Dreams by Wendy Ewald
Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti and Heidi Julavits
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
