Laura Lau Klein has held creativity and adornment closely throughout their life. As a painter Lau’s curiosity for life spurred them to study Art History, Art and Anthropology at the University of Delaware. Lau’s time in university didn’t quell their curiosity but inspired it further, leading them to pursue an artist practice while traveling. Landing in Western North Carolina, their appreciation for material culture blossomed; learning natural dying and basketry, woodcarving and jewelry. This passion took them to Penland School of Craft, the John C. Campbell Folk School, and, most recently, the Professional Crafts program at Haywood Community College to study jewelry. Lau now lives in Asheville, NC where their reverence for the natural world and the human role within it is displayed in their mixed media and jewelry work.
