laura summer

Laura is the author of the EduCareDo Visual Art: Exercises in Painting and Color subject course.

Laura is co-founder of Free Columbia, an arts initiative that includes a full time program based on aesthetic education, contemplative enquiry and action research.  It is completely grass roots donation supported and has no set tuitions. Her approach to color is influenced by Beppe Assenza, Rudolf Steiner, and by Goethe’s color theory. She has been working with questions of color and contemporary art for 30 years. Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Catholic Art and History in New York City and at the Sekem Community in Egypt. She has published nine books. She founded two temporary alternative exhibition spaces in Hudson NY, 345 Collaborative Gallery and Raising Matter-this is not a gallery and initiated ART DISPERSAL 2012-20 where over 700 pieces of art by professional artists have been dispersed to the public without set prices.