Laurencia Strauss

Providence, RI

April 28, 2011 – June 17, 2011

Laurencia Strauss is an artist, designer and educator working across art, design and ecology. Her work expands experience by interrupting routines of seeing and learning and by asking people to reconsider their relationships to local social and ecological systems. She is currently teaching at the Boston Architectural College and will serve as a Scholar in Residence at New Urban Arts in Providence this summer. She recently received funding from RISCA for a spring project related to urban landscapes. She has a degree in sculpture from California College of the Arts, a master’s in landscape architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, and has studied at Penland School of Crafts. Laurencia lives in Providence, RI.