Second Generation visual artist Laura R. Gadson explores and blends mediums, techniques, and materials based on her love of textiles, paper, glass and other materials.  She is a graduate of the renowned Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and holds a BFA from the City College of New York. Her work has been widely exhibited, reproduced as public art in her community, and is proudly part of various public and private collections, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. She is a native New Yorker living and creating in Harlem, NYC since 1993.