Episode 4: Laurel True

Episode 4 continues our exploration of mosaic as a healing art, with an artist whose passions for color, pattern, and travel have fueled a prolific career of mosaic making, community engagement, and public art. Today I chat with New Orlean’s based Artist, Laurel True. Laurel True is an artist and educator specializing in creative placemaking. Over the past 25 years, she has designed, created and facilitated hundreds of projects for hospitals, parks, commercial, residential and public spaces in the US, Haiti, Africa, Europe, Turkey and Latin America. In addition to running a professional production studio, True is the Founding Director of The Global Mosaic Project, which provides art education and entrepreneurial training to underserved communities in urban and developing areas. True co-founded the Institute of Mosaic Art in Oakland, California, a pioneering mosaic education, and resource center, and continues to foster education in the mosaic arts through teaching and lecturing around the world. truemosaics.com For accompanying images and references, visit: https://americanmosaics.org/behind-the-mosaic-episode-4-laurel-true