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A. Laura Palmer (born ?) is an interdisciplinary artist sculpture, public art, installations, and writing

She has exhibited work both as an individual artist and as a member of the artistic collective Haha since 1988 in various venues, both national and international. Her work in the collections major museums including The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago and the City of Linz, Austria.

Teaches in the Sculpture Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Worked for twenty years with the four-person collective Haha.

Intersections between art and science. In 2006, she collaborated with mathematicians Martin and Erik Demaine on "The Helium Stockpile," a mathematical folding sculpture consisting of hundreds of wooden blocks that can be manipulated into near countless shapes.

Major themes critique of privitzation

Her extended exploration of mineral extracting in the United States resulted in the publication In the Aura of a Holeby Black Dog Publishing (2014), which includes photographs and text by the artist. The narration discusses themes of environmental justice, Indigenous rights, industrial agriculture, and environmental destruction.

Publications Palmer, Laurie A. In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction. Black Dog Publishing, 2014. ISBN: 9781908966582

Jacon, Wendy. Laurie Palmer, and John Ploof, eds. With Love from Haha: Essays and Notes on a Collective Practice. WhiteWalls Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780945323136

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