Laura McLaughlin

Laura Jean McLaughlin’s work has been exhibited in over one hundred galleries and museums, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA), Mobile Museum of Art (AL), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL), Ohio Craft Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art (PA), Delf Norona Museum (WV), San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (TX), Baltimore Institute of Art (MD), and State Museum of Pennsylvania. She is a recipient of the Maggie Milono Memorial Award from Carnegie Museum of Art and three residencies at the Arts/Industry at Kohler Co. (WI). McLaughlin’s ceramic work has been featured in various periodicals, including New Ceramics, Korean Ceramic Art Monthly, Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, American Style, and American Craft Magazine. Her work is featured in the following books: Confrontational Ceramics, 500 Figures, 500 Teapots, 500 Bowls, 500 Cups, and Poetic Expressions of Mortality. She received an NEA Grant for a project working with the Hmong refugee community at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, a Mid-Atlantic grant for a large mosaic installation in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as a Mid-Atlantic Fellowship at West Virginia University.

McLaughlin has created over one hundred collaborative mosaic murals and installations throughout the city of Pittsburgh and in Tolne, Denmark. Her work is in the collection of the City of Pittsburgh, the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Carlow College, Whole Foods Market, the Porter~Price Collection, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler Co., and HBO. McLaughlin received a B.S. in medical technology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in ceramics from West Virginia University.