LAUREN E. PETERS
Lauren E. Peters is a visual artist working with the concepts of identity and gender through self-portraiture. She began creating within this genre for a small exhibit in 2016 after an extended hiatus from painting, and two years later won the “Emerging Artist” fellowship by the Delaware Division of the Arts. Lauren was the 2023 Delaware Individual Artist Fellow for Visual Arts: Painting, awarded the grant as an "Established Fellow." Peters has exhibited on a national level and is also active locally in her home state as a studio artist at The Delaware Contemporary. She continues to grow as an artist and expand the world in which the portraits exist.
Professional Highlights
RESIDENCIES
In the spring of 2024, Peters attended a three-week residency at the Vermont Studio Center. This residency was supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on DelawareScene.com. Lauren attended the Soaring Gardens Artist Residency in the summer of 2022, supported by the same grant. She will complete a month-long residency at ChaNorth in the Hudson Valley in May of 2024.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
At The Delaware Contemporary, Lauren has served as the Vice President of the Studio Artists group and the Artists Program Manager, helping develop this new role to serve the local and emerging artists of the region. Peters was previously the Operations Manager of the Somerville Manning Gallery, a highly respected gallery run entirely by women, and served two years on the board of The Art Trust at Meridian Bank in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
CURATOR
In 2020-2021 Peters curated and executed the exhibition, Appearances, at The Delaware Contemporary with 16 other artists creating their own interpretation of one of her early self-portraits. Peters was the co-curator for the Artsource Registry exhibition, Loam, at The Contemporary in the summer of 2023 and coordinates offsite exhibits for the Studio Artists group of TDC at the neighboring Riverfront Bakery, rotating shows throughout the year to feature those working artists.
NOTABLE PRESS
An interview with Shana Nys Dambrot, Arts Editor of LA Weekly, was published in the October 2022 issue of Delaware Today magazine, and the November 2022 issue of Out & About magazine featured an article on the development of the Wilma's commission for the Buccini/Pollin Group's bowling alley/restaurant in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
LAUREN E. PETERS