Laura Summer

Laura Summer is co-founder with Nathaniel Williams of Free Columbia, an arts initiative that includes a full time program based on the fundamentals of painting as they come to life through spiritual science. It is completely grass roots donation supported and has no set tuitions. Her approach to color is influenced by Beppe Assenza, Rudolf Steiner, and by Goethe’s color theory. She has been working with questions of color and contemporary art for 30 years. Her work, to be found in private collections in the US and Europe, has been exhibited at the National Museum of Catholic Art and History in New York City and at the Sekem Community in Egypt. She has published nine books, four with painting and drawing exercises, three with stories and two with poetry and paintings. She founded two temporary alternative exhibition spaces in Hudson NY, 345 Collaborative Gallery and Raising Matter-this is not a gallery and initiated ART DISPERSAL 2012-19 where over 650 pieces of art by professional artists have been dispersed to the public without set prices.