Bio

Laura Lavit Elmore emerged as an artist when she was 12 and won her first competition for a watercolor of Old Penn’s Store near her home in rural Kentucky. Her painting development was fostered by artist Judy Apple of Georgetown, KY.  As an adult her curiosity and interests led her to study printmaking, paper making and sculpture. She used these skills teaching children at the Living Arts and Science Center in Lexington, Kentucky, as an Artist in Residence in Eastern Kentucky, and in nursing homes through grants from the Kentucky Foundation for the Arts.  In recent years Laura studied clay at the Baum School of Art in Allentown, Pennsylvania under the directionf Renzo Faggioli. Her work has evolved in an expressionistic manner in which she strives to depict subjective emotions and responses to people and objects. Laura currently works out of her home studio in the Lehigh Valley and exhibits frequently with the Lehigh Art Alliance as well as in other group shows in the Valley. Her work can also be found at community events for her favorite charities and at the Emmaus Public Library.