Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Laurie Schorr

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 2:00pm, Mendenhall Student Center Great Room 1 and 2

Panel: The Portrait as Performance

Laurie Schorr grew up in New York surrounded by car parts and cuckoo clocks. From a very early age, she kept diaries and collected images with her camera and sketchbook. Laurie received a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Roger Williams University and later earned an MA in Art and Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College. Laurie has been teaching photography and writing through outreach and public school systems since 2003 and most recently was the Director of Education at The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Laurie has received numerous grants and awards for her photographic work including the 2014 North Carolina Regional Artist Project Grant, a 2013 Arts and Science Council Award, and Best Emerging Artist in Photography at the GLAAD OutAuction in NYC in 2009. Laurie's work has been exhibited most recently at Castell Photography Gallery, Art Intersection, Lightbox Gallery, PhotoPlace Gallery and the AIR Gallery (NYC) and was recently featured in Lenscratch.