About the Artist

Laura Ward

Laura Ward, an art teacher at Shoreline Community College and Pratt Fine Arts Center, likes to explore patterns left behind in old spaces ─ from worn floorboards to peeling wallpaper ─ to capture those memories in the sculptures she creates.   Laura likes the play of inside/outside and working with non-traditional materials presented in unexpected locations.  For her MadArt piece, Laura transformed an old wallpaper pattern into a translucent curtain where the pattern dissolves into a play of foreground and background.  The pattern, once covering interior walls, now hangs outside and creates a semi-transparent barrier to the space behind it.  

Born and raised in New Hampshire, Laura received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art with a concentration in glass and sculpture.  Her professional studies in art and sculpture continued at the University of Illinois where she graduated with an MFA degree.  Moving to Seattle in 2004, she entered an Emerging Artist in Residence program at Pilchuck Glass school where she has since returned several times, most recently as a Hauberg Fellow in 2009.