Biography

Lauren Braun is an artist, certified mindfulness facilitator and educator based in Pittsburgh, PA. She creates mixed media collages and mobiles that explore themes of play, meditation, and nature.

Recent exhibits include the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, Nemacolin, Boxheart Gallery, Mt. Lebanon Public Library and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Lauren has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Nemacolin, the Tough Art @ Home digital residency with Children’s Museum Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Glass Center’s Idea Furnace. Lauren completed the 2021 Mindfulness Faciliator Certification program (200 hours) through the Copper Beech Institute.

Lauren is a teaching artist offering mobile art classes with Fine Art Miracles where she works with senior citizens and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She is also a teaching artist with Creative Citizens Studio. She offers workshops in meditation and creativity.

Her work is included in the collections of the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia and PNC Bank. She is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh.

Lauren earned a BFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in fine art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University in Boston.

Select artwork can be found at the following galleries:

Curio Cool in Zelionople, PA.

Land Acknowledgement

I live and make art on the unceded, ancestral lands of many Indigenous peoples including the Seneca Nation, members of the Haudenosaunee (hoe-dee-no-SHOW-nee) Confederacy (also referred to by the French as the Iroquois Confederacy). The Confederacy was comprised of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas and formed to unite the five nations and create a peaceful means of decision making. The Seneca’s jurisdiction over the area also saw the region as home to the Lenape (also referred to as the Delaware), the Shawnee, and others. The Seneca language name for the Pittsburgh region is Dionde:gâ.

The process of knowing and acknowledging the land we stand on is a way of honoring and expressing gratitude for the ancestral people who stewarded this land before us.

Visit native-land.ca to learn more about the ancestral lands where you live.

This statement is a living document and may change and evolve over time.