{{short description|Canadian artist (born 1959)}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Laura Vickerson | honorific_suffix = | image = <!-- use the image's pagename; do not include the "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and do not use brackets--> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different than name --> | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1959}} | birth_place = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | nationality = | education = M.F.A., Department of Visual Art, University of Victoria<br> B.F.A., Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta | alma_mater = | known_for = installation artist, fabric artist | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | awards = 2003 Calgary ARTWALK Honouree | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = http://www.lauravickerson.com | module = }} '''Laura Vickerson''' (born 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian artist who works with mixed media in site-specific situations. She often includes discarded household items in her projects as a comment on changing trends, consumerism and human relationships with everyday objects.<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 July 2017 |title=Laura Vickerson |language=en-US |work=Medalta |url=http://medalta.org/laura-vickerson/ |url-status=live |access-date=24 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028014319/https://medalta.org/laura-vickerson/ |archive-date=28 October 2021}}</ref> Vickerson was a professor in Craft and Emerging Media at the Alberta College of Art and Design, where she taught starting in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=Laura Vickerson - Permanent Faculty Craft and Emerging Media |url=https://www.acad.ca/faculty-staff/faculty/laura-vickerson |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325105824/https://www.acad.ca/faculty-staff/faculty/laura-vickerson |archive-date=25 March 2018 |accessdate=24 March 2018 |website=ACAD}}</ref> Vikerson retired in 2020 and is now a Professor Emeritus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professors/Lecturers Emeritus |url=https://www.auarts.ca/about-auarts/faculty-and-staff/professorslecturers-emeritus |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803154132/https://www.auarts.ca/about-auarts/faculty-and-staff/professorslecturers-emeritus |archive-date=3 August 2022 |access-date=22 October 2022 |website=ACAD |language=en}}</ref>
==Exhibitions==
Vickerson has exhibited at the Biennale du Lin in Quebec, the 5th Istanbul Biennial, Textile Museum of Canada, Surrey Art Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Oakville Galleries.
==Works== In 2018, she was part of the exhibition entitled Fabrications at the Kelowna Art Gallery, along with three fellow women installation artists from different regions of Canada -- Libby Hague, Gisele Amantea, and Yael Brotman. Her piece, entitled Air, invites guests to lie barefoot below a canopy of cream-coloured translucent pieces of used clothing that she sewed together and suspended nearly 10 feet above the floor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Art installations need audience|url=http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/entertainment/article_7a157382-ff74-11e6-ae33-6760d1e17425.html|website=The Daily Courier|publisher=Kelowna Daily Courier|accessdate=24 March 2018|location=Kelowna, BC|date=2 March 2017}}</ref>
Fairy Tales and Factories was a site specific work created by Laura Vickerson for Locus+ in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and exhibited March 26–April 9, 1999. It was her first show in the UK. The installation consisted of a cape, 4 metres wide and 21 metres long, created from hundreds of thousands of rose petals pinned to organza. The garment was made on-site at Farfield Mill, which closed after 169 years of linen production, in collaboration with a local women's group, the Sedbergh Stitchers. Conversations with them and people connected to the building were recorded and played during the show.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bewley|first1=Jon|title=Factories and Fairy Tales|publisher=Locus+|date=2 March 1999}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vickerson, Laura}} Category:Canadian installation artists Category:Artists from Edmonton Category:Living people Category:1959 births Category:20th-century Canadian women artists Category:21st-century Canadian women artists