Recent Awards & Exhibitions
Awards
2023 - Juror’s Award winner. (Juror: Anna Davis, Fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center), "Breaking Ground: Art about the Earth"
2022 - Special Recognition for the 3 Dimensional Category (Jurors: Chris and Valerie Hoffman, gallery owners), "Nature"
2022 - Fifth Place Award for the 3 Dimensional Category (Jurors: Chris and Valerie Hoffman, gallery owners), "Primary Colors"
Exhibitions
2023 - "Wild Muse: Animals in Art", Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, In Association with the Smithsonian Institution, Solomons, MD
2023 - "Breaking Ground: Art about the Earth", Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, In Association with the Smithsonian Institution, Solomons, MD, (Juror: Anna Davis, Fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)
2022 - "Nature", an international juried exhibition, online at LightSpaceTime Gallery, (Jurors: Chris and Valerie Hoffman, gallery owners)
2022 - "Primary Colors", an international juried exhibition, online at LightSpaceTime Gallery, (Jurors: Chris and Valerie Hoffman, gallery owners)
Laura Shape is an award-winning multidimensional artist whose contemporary luxury pieces have gained international attention for sparking conversations around beauty, advocacy, and happiness. Laura uses innovative, hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind pieces to champion positive global impacts around sustainability and mental health. The artistic entrepreneur’s current work focuses on a serious environmental issue by using the leather from invasive animal species to protect native species and revive global ecosystems. Considered the world’s first invasive animal species artist, Laura’s work has been featured in numerous publications, is in private collections around the world, and has even received an award from a Fellow of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Read more