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Biography Laura Kaufman holds a BA from Vassar College where she was the recipient of the Weitzel-Barber Art Travel Prize to photograph the temples and gardens of Kyoto. After later living in northern Japan, Kaufman earned an MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was awarded the Sitings Installation at RISD Museum. In 2008 the Connecticut Art Education Association named her Museum Educator of the Year during her tenure as Head of School and Teacher Programs at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Kaufman is a 2011 participant in the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program and will exhibit in the first AIM Biennial in summer, 2011. In summer, 2012, she will exhibit as part of the Randall's Island Flow outdoor sculpture project, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Kaufman grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Houston and now lives on a small lake in New York. |
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