2015 IAF Winner, Laurel Jean Sprague
By: Grace Robinson
Individual Artist Fellowship, Craft
Mixed media artist Laurel Jean Sprague uses her work to express the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Beginning as a portrait photographer, she now integrates this skill with numerous other techniques to produce her works. Most recently she has used a variety of processes and mediums to reveal the dual aspect of man–internal and external–while also exploring the connection of these aspects to nature. With the IAF award, she has purchased new equipment for her art and is now working towards completing the adaption of her studio space that will eventually also become an artist co-op and host gallery exhibitions, classes and workshops.
Sprague is originally from Harrogate, TN. She received her BFA in photography from Piedmont College and Master of Humanities in fine art from Tiffin University. She has exhibited her work throughout Tenn. and surrounding states, currently produces out of her studio in South Nashville and is also store manager for SmART!
The Individual Artist Fellowship awards professional artists who have exhibited excellence in their discipline of choice. For more information, click here.
