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Laura Berman
Laura Berman chats with us about the vibrant colors in her works, her rock collection, and what she's learned in 20 years of printmaking.
I often describe my colors as delicious and every day I try to create colors I'd like to eat.
About the Artist
Laura Berman (b. 1973) is a Kansas City, Missouri-based artist who creates images that layer time, space, form and color together. Inspired by the natural world, her work focuses on play, improvisation, and relational dynamics in her work. Berman is a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she has taught in the Printmaking department since 2002. She was the 2024 Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Canberra, Australia, and she is the author of the ongoing series of artist interviews, Reflections on Color and Printmaking. Together with her husband, runs Prairieside Cottage and Outpost, a family-friendly artist’s retreat in the Flint Hills region of Matfield Green, Kansas.
Artist-in-Residence at Art Print Residence, 2025
Artist-in-Residence at Megalo Print Studios, 2024
Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of Canberra, Australia, 2024
Solo exhibition, Earth Moves, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, 2024
