Community Artist
Community Arts Projects
Collaborating Artist with Commonwealth Circus Center + Circus Up 2020-present
Collaborating Artist with The Awareness Project’s Engaging the Self 2021
Earth Element Improv live virtual program, Peabody Essex Museum, 2020
Massachusetts Humanities Grant Scholar, The Nature Plays by Patrick Gabridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA, 2019
PEM Movement Residency, 2021
Three additional workshops held through the summer of 2021
Mystic Moves, 2017
Mystic Moves is Laura Kathrein’s thesis project for her Community Arts Masters at Lesley University. The paper defends dance and movement as a means to investigate the natural world, specifically the Mystic River Watershed, and develop a more intimate connection to place. Framed around the author’s experience as an a/r/tographer, the paper details the conception, implementation, and future steps for the project Mystic Moves.
Link to additional graduate Community Arts work.
Bethlehem Community Mural, 2015
2014 Community Mural
This mural was created by piecing together community painted squares. Laura worked with a small team to conceptualize the mural, disseminate squares, host painting parties with community partners, and install the mural. The mural hung on the Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network’s exterior wall from 2014-2021.
Board & Volunteer POsitions
Gallery 263, Co-Board President, Cambridge, MA
Appearances Green Arts Festival, Volunteer Assistant, Provincetown, MA
The Gallery At WREN, Board Member, Bethlehem, NH
Bethlehem ArtWalk, Board Member, Bethlehem, NH
Cultivate NH Dance Festival, Lead Volunteer + Performer, Bethlehem, NH
Rock Hard Modern Dance Company, Co- Artistic Director, Ithaca, NY