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Laura Marsh is an installation and textile artist whose practice transforms fabric into a social architecture for participation, reflection, and care. Rooted in a working-class lineage of women who sew, Marsh approaches textiles as both material and method—objects that carry labor, memory, and political charge. Her immersive installations incorporate spheres, flags, tapestries, and plush environments that invite viewers to touch, rest, photograph themselves, and converse. Drawing on histories of craft, feminist labor, and DIY culture, her work resists disposability and champions mending, repair, and embodied presence as acts of cultural resistance.
Marsh received her MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Dimensions Variable, Locust Projects, Printed Matter, Field Projects, and the Deering Estate. Through residencies, public programming, and curatorial work, she activates underused spaces and advocates for ethical labor practices in the arts. Marsh’s installations function as tactile safe havens—spaces that hold conversations about class, mobility, gender, and value—while weaving together community, material exchange, and collective care.
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