Laura Terry Associate Professor B.S. Environmental Design, Auburn University M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design Visit Laura's web site lmt@uark.edu 479/575-6779

Since 1999 Laura Terry has taught first-year studio and landscape painting courses at the School of Architecture. She also directs the school’s design/build program at Camp Aldersgate, a Little Rock camp that primarily serves children with special needs. With all teaching endeavors, she encourages students to see beyond what is easily seen and to capture the extraordinary from the ordinary landscape around them.

Southern culture is at the heart of Terry’s research, painting and teaching.  Regional yard traditions are an ongoing field of inquiry. Terry’s paintings, which she describes as Cubist representations of Southern events contained on a two-dimensional plane, celebrate the Southern landscape and its rich tradition of porches, agrarian ruins and food. Her research is supported by an interest in southern fiction, particularly by women writers.

Terry has exhibited her work in Savannah, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York, and her work was included in New American Paintings, a juried publication. In 2003 she was awarded the Department of Architecture McIntosh Faculty Award for a series of paintings entitled “Paradise Lost.” These abstract representations of the Southern literary landscape were featured in a solo exhibition in Rogers, Ark. and the spring 2006 issue of the Overland Review. Her work at Camp Aldersgate was featured in the September 2006 issue of Dwell magazine.