Laura Glazer
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 inform her social practice, and her projects appear as books and zines, radio shows, festivals, exhibitions, installations, posters, signs, postal correspondence, and sculpture.Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the BBC. 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 the Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA) in April 2022.She was a 2022—2023 Artist Fellow at the New York Public Library Picture Collection. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice: Art and Social Practice from Portland State University and a BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. Born in northern Virginia, she was a longtime resident of upstate New York and is now based in Portland, Oregon.Laura is also an adjunct professor at Portland State University, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts.
