Lauren Lampe, MFA

Education:

• M.F.A., Studio Art, East Carolina University, 1996
• B.S., Visual Communications, University of Delaware, 1984
• Study Abroad, London, England – Syracuse University, 1983

Professional Organization Memberships:

• College Art Association
• Society of North American Goldsmiths
• Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
• Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh
• Society for Contemporary Crafts

Publications:

“Tags, Voice and Performance: Art and the Academy.” Culture and Organization, 12, 1, 2006, pp. 79-90 with Christine Abbott and Astrid Kersten

Commission:

Design and fabrication of the sterling silver Presidential Chain of Office for Sister Candace Introcaso, president of La Roche University, 2005

Conference Presentations:

• “Empowered Art and the Healing of Society,” The Second Art of Management and Organisation Conference, Paris, France, Sept. 7 – 10, 2004
• “Tags as Performance: Experimenting with the Academic and the Artist’s Voice” with Chris Abbott and Astrid Kersten.
• Paper/workshop presented at The Second Art of Management and Organization Conference, Paris, France, Sept. 7-10, 2004
• “Positioning the Viewer: Exploring the relationship between Audience, Art and Artist,” The Art of Management and Organization Conference, London, England, Sept. 3 – 6, 2002
• Visiting Professor/Consultant: January 1998 – May 1998
• Jasani Department of Jewelry Design and Manufacturing, S.N.D.T. Women’s University, Bombay, India. Responsibilities included: curriculum writing, organization and implementation in addition to teaching both faculty and students. Some courses/curriculum covered: Enameling, Beginning and Advanced Metals and Jewelry Design/Rendering

Selected Exhibitions:

• Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh Annual Show
• CCAC Campus, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 – 30, 2006
• Lawrenceville Art All Night: Industrial Warehouse, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 22 – 23, 2005
• Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh New Works Show
• Cantellops Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 25 – May 10, 2005
• Working Series
• One of eight artists juried into a show featuring works created in a series. Show included 10 new and previously not shown metal and wood sculptures. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jan. 9 – March 14, 2004
• Sweetwater Center for the Arts: Penguins on Parade Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April – September 2002
• One of thirty Pittsburgh artists invited to dress a sculptural penguin, April 2002
• “Kick-off” event: Penguins on Parade
• Sewickley Academy Library, June 13, 2002
• “Patterned Penguin Perched at the Pole Pondering Other Ports,” National Aviary, June – September 2002
• Penguins on Parade Auction and Celebration, Sewickley Heights Golf Club, Sept. 28, 2002
• Featured in the La Roche University Magazine, “The Art of Living,” by Darrah Price, January 2002
• Solo Show: Marking Time by Lauren P. Lampe
• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 17 – May 6, 2001

JOINED LA ROCHE:

1997

HOMETOWN:

Originally from New Jersey