Perched 3 (Alongside Series)
Drypoint monoprint with hand working and chine collé
2026

Bio
Laura Mack (she, her) is an artist living in Salem, Oregon. Her practice includes teaching, curation, and writing. Her art has been exhibited throughout the United States and in private collections. Learn more about her work and process by visiting the portfolios.

Laura Mack holds a BFA (School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, 1995) and an MFA (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 2004). She also studied at Scuola Lorenzo de Medici in Florence in 1990 and 1991. Mack teaches Drawing, Painting, Understanding Art, and Creativity at Chemeketa Community College. (Try a drawing lesson!

Her curatorial work includes Drawing Deeper (2015), The Presence of Absence (2008), and Alert & Attuned: Attending to Our Climate Emergency (2025).

A former TEDx Speaker with Art Education Matters, so What’s the Problem?, Mack also presents and co-presents papers at Foundations of Art Theory and Education (FATE) conferences such as “Drawing as Experiment,” “Collaborate or Die: Co-Teaching The Creativity Class,” and “On the Ground, Faculty Led, DEI Work.” Laura Mack is co-author of Art for Everyone (Chemeketa Press, 2018 and Oxford University Press, 2021|).