Artist-in-Residence

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.