BIOGRAPHY

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Laraine Armenti is a visual artist in drawing, painting, and collage primarily focused on pictorial structure, handcraft and art history. She holds degrees from Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Printmaking 1980 and Boston University, MFA Painting 2013.

Awards and fellowships include the Inside Out Art Museum in Beijing, China; Massachusetts Cultural Council; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been shown in Alpha Gallery, Gladstone Jewelry Gallery, and the Morse Institute Free Public Library.

She taught at several schools as an adjunct instructor including Boston University, Danforth Museum at Framingham State University, Cambridge Center Studio, and Wheaton College Massachusetts, and was a visiting artist for painting critiques at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Laraine’s earliest job in art was in high school as a book illustrator for Concord Public Schools. During summers in college she was a technical illustrator at Digital Equipment Corporation, followed by full-time employment at DEC as an illustrator and graphic designer, producing a wide range of print and presentation media graphics.

Laraine continued developing her painting and drawing interests while self-employed for three decades as a designer of marketing materials and conference graphics, traveling throughout the US and internationally as a speaker support tech in corporate meetings until 2007.