Office Hours
By Appointment
Education
MFA, Painting, New York Academy of Art
BA, Studio Art, Spring Hill College
About Me
Lauren Woods is an artist whose creative research focuses on embodied expression, nature's consciousness and the transformative nature of time. She works across various mediums, including painting, video and dance performances, and has exhibited her work in galleries across the US and internationally. Regionally, she has shown work at the Gadsden Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the Wiregrass Museum of Art. She has been recognized with a 2024 Individual Visual Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and a 2025 Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant from South Arts.
In addition to painting, Lauren has collaborated with Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre, led by Billy Blanken, providing visual art direction for four live multimedia dance performances at Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City, NY. Their collaboration, SMDT Season IV: An Evening of New Classics, was supported by a 2023 New Works Grant through the Queens Arts Fund.
Lauren earned her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art after completing her BA in studio art at Spring Hill College. Her teaching specialties include figure drawing and representational painting, and in 2023, she received a Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Liberal Arts.
Areas of Expertise
Figure Drawing, Representational Painting
Research Interests
Painting, Drawing, Video, Performance
Courses Taught
ARTS 3110: Figure Drawing I
ARTS 3160: Figure Drawing II
ARTS 3310: Painting I