Laurie McDonald

Laurie McDonald is a writer, media artist, and founder of Electron Movers (Providence, R.I.). Since the early 70s, her video art has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, and festivals including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), the U.S. Film and Video Festival (now Sundance), the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, and the Tokyo Video Festival. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Grant and four American Film Institute/NEA Fellowships. She has taught video production and aesthetics at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), and at the University of Houston. She is also a certified Acutonics Practitioner, a sound therapy based on Traditional Chinese Medicine.