Laura Blacklow

Blacklow combines drawing, printmaking, painting and photography to hand-make artist’s books and prints using non-traditional techniques. She often anchors pictures with text, as in her artwork about Guatemala, a country where she has volunteered with Maya and other economically marginalized youth for almost thirty years at photokidsoriginal.org

She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for works on paper, the St. Botolph Club’s Morton C. Bradley Color Award, Polaroid Corporation’s Artist Support Program, a Research Grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation Fellowship for her hand-colored black and white photographs. Her prints and books are in the collection of Harvard’s Fogg Museum, Simmons College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the private collections of Lucy Lippard, Sol Lewitt, and Bela Kalman, to name a few.

For more than 30 years, Laura Blacklow taught Historical Photo Processes, Artist’s Books, Digital Photography, and Oral and Visual Story-telling at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts @ Tufts University. In the summer, you can find her in her urban, organic garden, where she also collects plants to make photographic sun prints for the portfolio, Backyard Botanicals. One print from the group is seen on the cover of the 5th edition of "New Dimensions". Since 2020, She has been making books that provide uplift with words and images in her Quarantine Project. (Representative book and print images can be seen on her website.)

See more at www.laurablacklow.com