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Juror
Jo Lauria is an independent curator and an art and design
historian. She holds a degree in art history from Yale University
and in studio art from Otis College of Art and Design. Formerly,
Lauria was a decorative arts curator at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA), specializing in modern and contemporary
decorative arts, craft, and design. She has published extensively,
organized numerous exhibitions, and produced and directed multimedia
presentations and documentary films. In 2005, she co-organized the
traveling exhibition, Ruth Duckworth—Modernist Sculptor, and wrote
the accompanying monograph on Duckworth, published by Lund
Humphries. In the same year she coauthored with Suzanne Baizerman,
California Design: The Legacy of West Coast Craft and Style, a
design survey for Chronicle Books assessing the dynamic
contributions California designers made to the field.
Currently Jo Lauria serves as chief curator of the exhibition
CRAFT IN AMERICA: Expanding Traditions, a nationally touring show hosted
by seven Ameri-can museums. The exhibition is intended to complement the
PBS documentary series, CRAFT IN AMERICA: Memory, Landscape, and
Community. The companion book to the exhibition, Craft in America:
Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects was coauthored by Jo
Lauria and released in fall 2007. Lauria’s most recent exhibition,
Masters of Mid-Century California Modernism: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman
will be on view at the Mingei International Museum, San Diego, through
Jan. 10, 2010.
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