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Laraine Armenti is a visual artist in drawing, painting, and collage, inspired by exploration of cultural history, methods, and skills.
Laraine holds art degrees from Rhode Island School of Design, BFA, Printmaking, 1980, and Boston University, MFA, Painting, 2013. Awards and residencies include the Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing; Massachusetts Cultural Council; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and Vermont Studio Center; and has had occasional gallery shows with Alpha Gallery in Boston and Gladstone Gallery in Manchester, Massachusetts.
Between 2014—2019, she taught courses in painting, drawing, and color in Boston University, Danforth Museum School at Framingham State University, Cambridge Center Studio School, and Wheaton College Massachusetts, and was a visiting artist for painting critiques at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Laraine’s undergraduate work at RISD was in fine art engraving and etching while working in the emergent computer industry as an illustrator and designer in the 1970s—2000s. She was an illustrator for Concord Public Schools during high school, and a technical illustrator and graphic designer at Digital Equipment Corporation summers during college. After eight years at DEC, she was self-employed as a designer of marketing materials and conference graphics, traveling extensively throughout the US and internationally, providing computer-based speaker support for corporate meetings.
She pays her respects to past and present indigenous people whose land she lives and works on, variously transliterated as Magwonkkomuk and later Magunko, and who prior to 1630 held sovereignty that has never been ceded.