Lauren has been an ARTS educator and advocate for the arts her entire life. Her background is in using the arts to teach community well-being. Her bachelor’s and master’s work focused on using the arts in the social service sector. She has traveled both nationally and internationally to do this work including Argentina, Jamaica and Mexico.

In 2003 she co-founded Art & Soul School of Creative & Performing ARTS. Since then, Art & Soul School has provided Educational ARTs Programs to over 10,000 students in the San Francisco Bay Area. She calls this work, “prevention.”

Lauren loves to incorporate nature and found objects into her acrylic paintings. She calls her mixed-media, nature & acrylic paintings, “Spiritual Abstracts,” because she paints with emotion and lets her spirit guide the painting. Her hope is to evoke emotion and deeper inner-listening in her viewer.

Lauren also leads Healing Art Workshops to facilitate her process of painting to those who want a creative path to healing.