Laura Ross-Paul

From the artist’s website

http://lauraross-paul.com/biography [accessed 2/2021]

Laura Ross-Paul has been painting professionally for over four decades. She received her MFA in Painting from Portland State University in 1976. She has exhibited her work throughout the Pacific Northwest and in California and New York in such venues as the Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Her works can be found in public and private collections across the United States and have pictured on the covers of numerous books.

During her career she has received an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship and Bonnie Bronson Fellowship in addition to other awards and residencies. As an Associate Art Professor, she fostered the artistic talents of art students while teaching art at Portland State, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Lewis and Clark College, and the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, among others. She also was a co-founder of Northwest Artist's Workshop and a committee member and curator for the Portland Center for the Visual Arts (PCVA).