Lauren Lampe, MFA

TITLE:Associate Professor in Graphic & Communication Design and Director of Galleries

DEPARTMENT: Graphic & Communication Design

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ATTENDED AND DEGREES RECEIVED:

East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

Master of Fine Arts in Metal Design, 1995
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

Bachelor of Science in Visual Communications, 1984
Syracuse University, London, England.

Division of International Programs Abroad, 1983

Associations:

College Art Association
Society of North American Goldsmiths
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Craftsmen's Guild of Pittsburgh: Board member 2001 - present, current Vice President
Society for Contemporary Crafts

Publication:

With Astrid Kersten and Chris Abbott
"Tags, Voice and Performance: Art and the Academy"

Culture and Organization, 12/1, 2006, pp. 79-90

Commission:

Design and fabrication of the sterling silver Presidential Chain of Office for Sr. Candace Introcaso, 7th President of La Roche College, 2005

Conference Presentations:

"Empowered Art and the Healing of Society" The Second Art of Management and Organisation Conference, Paris, France, September 7 - 10, 2004

With Chris Abbott and Astrid Kersten. "Tags as Performance: Experimenting with the Academic and the Artist's Voice".

Paper/Workshop presented at The Second Art of Management and Organisation
Conference, Paris, France, September 7-10, 2004

"Positioning the Viewer:
Exploring the relationship between Audience, Art and Artist"

The Art of Management and Organisation Conference, London, England,
September 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, October 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 unshown metal and wood sculptures. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 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" On display at the National Aviary, June - September 2002

   - Penguins on Parade Auction and Celebration at the Sewickley Heights Golf Club, September 28, 2002

Featured in the La Roche College 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