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 Nemacolin, Boxheart Gallery, Mt. Lebanon Public Library and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Artist residencies include the Vermont Studio Center, Tough Art @ Home with Children’s Museum Pgh and Idea Furnace at Pittsburgh Glass Center. In 2021, Lauren completed a 200 hour Mindfulness Faciliator Certification program through the Copper Beech Institute.

Lauren is a teaching artist offering workshops in meditation and collage at Contemporary Craft and mobile art classes with Fine Art Miracles where she works with senior citizens and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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.

Select artwork can be found at the following galleries:

Curio Cool in Zelionople, PA.

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden in Oakdale, March - June, 2024

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, March - May, 2024

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.