Bio

Laura DeGrace is an accountant by day. However outside of her day job she is a book artist, photographer and collage artist who recently moved back to New England after a 17-year adventure in Portland, Oregon. She has a B.A. in Studio Arts from Rhode Island College with a concentration in photography. She also studied in the M.F.A Computer Art program at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. For the past 10 years, she has fed her growth in book arts with classes at Oregon College of Art and Craft and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, as well as online programs across the country.

Artwork

Book Arts

Collage

Photography

I was excited about this article on my “Glimmers” book which is in an exhibition at the Rockland Public Library in January 2025. The writer of the article chose me and another artist to get feedback from. I've never shown anywhere. I was a commercial artist (web designer) for so many years and ignored my own work. Now I'm an accountant by day, book, collage artist and photograph by all the rest of the time. So this little things mean a lot to me.

Midcoast Maine Book Arts Group Exhibition: January 2-31, 2025, Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St, Rockland, ME.

My book “Glimmers” is in the exhibition.

Featured book: Sticks & Stones

We as humans and especially women absorb labels and stories about ourselves that start as myths become our reality in our heads. But how true are these labels? Fat, ugly, plan, sad, angry. Many of these things are what we are not supposed to be and carry great weight, untruths that build up into deep secrets in our hearts and souls.

I started with the idea of the Exquisite Corpse binding that is often used in children’s books because it allows the reader to mix and match and see how ridiculous and arbitrary these labels are. Once exposed, these labels are just information put upon us which is the story of someone else.

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