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A. Laurie Palmer is an artist, writer and teacher. For 20 years, from 1998 until 2008, she was a member, with Richard House, Wendy Jacob and John Ploof of the art collective HaHa. Their site and community based projects were included in exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Aperto, XLV Venice Biennale; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and MASS MoCA. Independently and with HaHa she has received awards and institutional support including from the Louis Tiffany Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council, the Richard M. Driehaus Foundation, the ArtCouncil (now Artadia) and the Radcliffe Institute. Recently her long term exploration of mineral extraction sites throughout the United States was published by Black Dog Publishing as In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction. A. Laurie Palmer studied for her undergraduate degree at Williams College and received a Master of Fine Arts in 1988 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently she is a Professor in the Art Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz.