Discipline: Visual Art

Laura Battle

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Tivoli, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986
More: www.laurabattle.com
Laura Battle is an American painter, visual artist, and educator. Battle began her study at The Corcoran School of Art, and went on to study at Kirkland College, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Yale School of Art, and the Pitchuck Glass School. Battle’s work has been featured in several solo and duo exhibitions, including shows at the Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York, Arsenal 17 in Benicia, CA, and the Atelier du Caire in Cairo, Egypt, and in over 50 group shows at several venues, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy Museum, the Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, the Gallerie D’Art in Carthage, Tunisia, the Binational Fulbright Commission in Cairo, Egypt, the Kanazawa College of Art in Kanazawa, Japan, and the Binational Exhibition through the America’s Society in Cuenca, Ecuador. Battle has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Yale School of Art, Assumption College, the Vermont College of Norwich University, and Bard College, and has received several accolades for her work, including the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant (2010), the Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2010), a visiting artist award from the American Academy in Rome (2004), an award from the National Endowment for the Arts (1989), a Fulbright Fellowship (1984-1985), and the Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Prize at Yale (1983). Additionally, Battle has curated more than 20 exhibitions all over the United States.

Studios

Cheney

Laura Battle worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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