Laura Pharis

Laura Pharis, a native of Roanoke, Virginia, is an artist, printmaker, sculptural doll maker, and musician. For five years she was the director of the Richmond Printmaking Workshop. She was a founder of One/Off Printmakers, a group of professional artists and printmakers exhibiting their original prints worldwide. She is an art professor and Chair of the Studio Art Department at Sweet Briar College. She was a faculty activist engaged in fund-raising and litigation to save Sweet Briar College from closing in 2015.

Laura Pharis earned her B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in the late 1960's. She taught in Richmond’s Montessori schools for five years, but she "couldn’t let go of creating art." She earned an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1988 and an advanced degree from London’s Central School of Art and Design.Her experience included teaching at Carolina College and serving as a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin. For five years she was the director of the Richmond Printmaking Workshop and engaged in the workshops of visiting artists.

Her art is represented in the permanent collection of Longwood College's Center for the Visual Arts. In 2008, the exhibition Mixed Media by Laura Pharis was shown in Gallery One of Art6 in Broad Street, Richmond Virginia arts district.

A member of One/Off Printmakers, she participated in One/Off: 13 (+1) Richmond Printmakers at Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her art was included in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts traveling One/Off Printmakers portfolio exhibited at Art6 in Richmond, and was shown in 2012 at a One/Off Printmakers group show at Studio Two Three on Main Street in Richmond.

...
Wikipedia