Lauren Ashley S. Baker
EDUCATION
Florida State University, Tallahassee FL - MFA
August 2018 | Focus Area in photography, installation, video, performance & sculpture
Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers FL - BA
May 2010 | Focus Area in Studio Art
EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor | Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY | August 2022 - PRESENT
First Year Studio I, Fall 2022
Observational Drawing I, Fall 2022
First Year Studio II, Spring 2023
Adjunct Professor | Tallahassee Community College, Tallahassee, FL | August 2022 - December 2022
Digital Foundations, Fall 2022
Digital Photography, Fall 2022
Adjunct Professor | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL | October 2017 - August 2022
Success Strategies: Fall 2022
Contemporary Art and Design Foundations: Fall 2021
3D Foundations: Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2021
Figure Drawing Foundations: Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall2021, Spring 2022
Figure Drawing II: Spring 2020
2D Foundations: Spring 2017
Development of course content for teaching online during pandemic (COVID-19) & mentor to incoming teachers (3D Foundations)
Figure Drawing Foundations, 2020
3D Foundations, 2020
Executive Director | 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL | July 2017 - January 2022
Development and management of the strategic plan, budget, grants writing, fundraising, and management of day to day operations of the 621 Gallery (501(c)3).
Development, maintenance, training, and supervision of University internship staff for Fall, Spring, and Summer.
Monthly interface with the Gallery Board of Directors in the budgeting, selection, planning and production of all exhibits, events and programs in the Gallery and 621 Annex.
Leading the Exhibition Committee in the selection, planning, design and management of all art exhibits, including artists contracts, coordinating visiting artists and sales (Exhibition committee selections occur annually).
Oversee the planning, development and implementation of all internal and outreach and educational programming, including working with public schools, universities and city, county and state entities;
Oversight of PR and Marketing for the 621 Gallery.
Sustained partnerships with local businesses, organizations and nonprofits.
Correspondence with sustaining donors and members.
Treasure of the Board of Directors | 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL | October 2016 - June 2017
Administers and Maintains all financial records of the organization.
Assists Executive Director with grant applications.
Is responsible for collecting fees. Creates a budget report at the beginning of each quarter and as requested by the President, Vice-President, and 621 Gallery Executive Director(s).
Performs the duties of the Secretary in their absence.
Is one of 3 signers of financial documents.
President | League of Graduate Artists, FSU Tallahassee, FL | October 2016 - January 2018
Reprogramed and developed League of Graduate Artists structure for officer positions and committees, & lead monthly LGA meetings.
Oversight of management of LGA fundraisers, social events, and Working Method Contemporary Gallery
Organized group of 8 artists to showcase work during Art Basel Miami, at Aqua Art Fair December, 2017.
Personal Assistant & Photographer | Royal Palm Antiques & Fenning Private Art Collection, Fort Myers, FL | June 2010 - August 2016
Photographed & cataloged antiques for online sales.
Photographed & cataloged private art collection
Assisted with event planning and fundraising for the local arts community.
Personal Assistant & bookkeeper | Aida Interior Design, Fort Myers, FL | June 2010 - August 2016
Office Assistant, bookkeeping and record organization for business.
Interior design assistant and photographer
Founder & Director San Carlos Collective, Fort Myers, FL | June 2010 - December 2011
Founder of Artist Collective
Organized & lead 10 artists to participate in Art Basel Miami, Art Now Fair in December of 2011
Gallery Assistant | Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL | August 2006 - May 2010
Gallery assistant, preparator and docent for FGCU’s Art Gallery & Annex
GRANTS, AWARDS & HONORARIES
FATE Conference Attendee, 2021
LEON CARES Grant, 2020 ($2,500)
LEAN Grant, 2020 ($20,000)
Schmidt Vocal Art Foundation Grant, 2020 ($5,000)
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, ($1000 per year)
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant, 2022 ($2000)
Council on Culture & Art (COCA) Marketing Grant, 2019, 2020, 2021 ($3000 - $5000 per year)
Council on Culture & Art (COCA) General Program Support Grant, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 ($5,000 - $10,000 per year)
Division of Cultural Affairs Fast Track Grant, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 ($2,500 per year)
City Redevelopment Association (CRA), Small Project Grant ($5000)
Network for Good Grant, 2021 ($500)
Capital City Bank Grant ($250)
Railroad Square Tenant Advisory Council Member 2019, 2020, 2021
Area award in photography, FSU, MFA program - April 2016
Best of Show, Student Exhibit at Space 39 - May 2008
Outstanding Achievement in Moving Image, 24-Hour Festival, FGCU - Sept 2008
Southern Scholarship Foundation Award - 2010-2005
Yet to be decided grants:
DCA 2022, Florida Humanities 2022, Puffin Foundation Grant 2022, Awesome Foundation 2022, Knight Foundation 2023, Andy Warhol Foundation 2023, National Endowment for the Arts - Our Town Grant 2023
BUSINESS & ORGANIZATION RELATIONSHIPS
Florida State University, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Surfrider Foundation, Tallahassee Ballet Conservatory, MANCC, Railroad Square Art District, Council on Culture & Arts (COCA), Cat Family Records, Gamescape, Red Fin, The Gem Collection, Pyramid Studios, Boys and Girls Club, Target Print & Mail, Tri-Eagle Sales, The Plant, Square Mug Cafe, Black Dog Cafe, Bay Leaf, The Sharing Tree, Our Climate, Arts & Cultural Experiences at Railroad Square, Tallahassee Bail Fund, 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Tallahassee Film Fest, RAA Middle School, Subversive Sounds, Artists Helping Artists (AHA), Foster Tanner Gallery, Gadsden Art Museum, Florida State Museum of Art, Green Vibes, The Crumbox, Otherside Vintage, Capital City Video Lounge, Feeling Art, Gandy Printers
EXHIBITIONS
2023 October Citrus Flux, FGCU Gallery, Fort Myers FL
2022 September Faculty Exhibition, TCC Gallery, Tallahassee FL
2018 July Vanitas Impermanence, Lauren Baker, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2016 September Between the Ferns, Lisa Co & Lauren Baker, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2016 May Dangerous Woman, Lauren Baker, SMALLS, Tallahassee FL
2011 December San Carlos Collective, group exhibition, Art Now Fair, Catalina Hotel, Miami Fl
2011 October Preview to Miami, San Carlos Collective, group exhibition, Sydney Bern Davis
Art Center, Fort Myers FL
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2022 January Washed and Worn, Margaret Hull
Grid vs. Web: The Space Between, Jordyne Vanselow
2021 December Cybersquatting in the Digital World, Jonathan McFadden & David Wisher
2021 November 25th Annual Art Auction
2021 October Destinations, Perdita Ross
2021 August - Sept 621 Gallery Annual Members Exhibition
2021 July Loaded, George Elkanah
Poor Lydia, Lisa McCarthy
2021 June Art Is Everywhere, a community engagement project
An Introduction to Black Female Millennial Art, Maya Shae
2021 April - May Gone Wild, Jessica Smoleroff
Mythopoeia: Brittany McDermott, Nathan Mullis, Sarah Norman, Elise
Thompson, Connie Zheng
2021 March Adidas and Bustello, Kate Kinder
Floral Flex Time, Kalee Appleton
Abstract Stitch, Susan Hensel
2021 February The Face of the King, Leon Hicks
2020 Dec - Jan 21' My Heart Beats, Neill Prewitt
Disrupted Sequence, Shannon Lindsey
2020 November See Your Neighbor: Diversity in the Arts, a virtual group exhibition
2020 July Flattening the Curve, a virtual group exhibition
2020 April 621 Gallery Member Exhibition, a virtual group exhibition
2020 March Digi-phragm, Jordan Vinyard
Set It, Then Forget It, Blake Weld
2020 February Cutting Nature, Lucrezia Bieler
New Naturalism, Nan Liu
2020 January The Sometimes Observed Life of a Disco Gimp, Tom Hall
El Camino Doloroso, J. Leigh Garcia
Please Exit, The Doors Are Closing, Tantana Kellner
2019 December Through the Silver Grove I Went Without Breaking a Twig, Inguna Gremzde
Sistema, Sheila Goloborotko
2019 November 24th Annual Art Auction
2019 October Syndication, Amy Smoot
Shape, Glaze Fire: A Community of Clay Creators, Tallahassee Clay Arts
2019 September Mining The Landscape, Jason Sheridan Brown
Let Me Tell You This, Someone In Some Future Time Will Think Of Us, Annie May Johnston
2019 July > 7 , Ansley Adams, Jillian-Marie Browning, Lauren Buchness, Angel Carlin, Brittney-Cathey-Adams, Chantel Clausen, Tore Hallas, Matias Herrera, André Terrel Jackson, Amanda Klienhans, Shona McAndrew, Shoog McDaniel, NéstorDaniel Pérez Molière, Sam Noel, Nubian, Zoë Schneider, Andrew Leo Stansbury, and Allison Tunis
Men, Vivian Liddell
2019 June Art Is Everywhere, a community engagement project
2019 May Silent Spring, Casey May McGuire
American Miniature, Nancy Daly & Kim Llerena
2019 April Lysis, Andrea Frank
Highway (re)Construction, Steven Benson
2019 March Year Yellow, Elysia Mann
Glamor & Mimicry, Kathryn Shrive
Vessels, Ananda Balingit-LeFils & Janae Easton
2019 February Delicatessen, Ry McCullough
Untitled, John Chang
Splash: The Interaction of Color, Joe Roache
2019 January Responding to Antarctica, Allyson Comstock
Mirco, Macro and In-between, Allyson Comstock
Sanctuary, Meg Pierce
Identity Informed then Performed, Alex Ingle
2018 December Verisimilitude, Dominic Lippillo, John Morris, Casey McGuire, and Mark Schoon
The World Would Be A Beautiful Place If It Wasn’t For People, Glenn Downing
2018 November 23rd Annual Art Auction
2018 October Art of Resistance, curated with Cynthia Hollis
2018 October The Worm at My Core, April Cluess
2018 September The Self That Remains, Samantha Burns
Untrustworthy Night, Sarah Marshall
Gold Tin, Dana Robinson
2018 June A Drop in a Bucket, Brooks Dierdorff
Transcriptions: Indices from the Earth, Kyra Schmidt
Golden Years, Sammantha Marie
2018 May & Co., Tenee’ Hart & Brittany M. Watkins
2018 April #LineShapeColor, Patrick Schmidt
Flocked, Kim Radatz
2018 March Construction Reconstruction, Marianne Chapel
Waking Space, Steve Breaux
2018 February Portraits in Passing, Ann Kozeliski
El Playon, Lorena Molina
Southern Trees…, Jillian M. Browning
2018 January Collecting the Narrative, Tiffany Leach & Kathryn Wiggins
BeFoul, Jeff Murphy
2017 December Working Method Contemporary Collective Exhibition, Aqua, Miami, Fl
2017 November It Really Is Dreamy, Isn’t It, Ehren Fritz Gerhard & Michelle Ecccles
Ghost Lines, Alma Elaine Shoaf
2017 October WMC Collective Preview to Art Miami, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2017 September In Memory of A Switchboard Operator, Mark S. Zimmerman
Anamnesis, a group exhibition
CURATED FORUMS
2021 March ART + ACTIVISM SERIES: Countering Unconscious Bias: Gender and Identity in the Arts. Host: Kiley Brandt.
Panelists: Kate Kinder, Kathleen Spehar, Alexander Martin
2021 February ART + ACTIVISM SERIES: Climate Advocacy. Host: Lauren Baker
Panelists: Dr. Tyler McCreary, Veronica Morejon, Salome Garcia
2020 October ART + ACTIVISM SERIES: See Your Neighbor | Diversity in the Arts. Host: Joshua Johnson
Panelists: Sharon Norwood, Roc Rochon, Saskiya Fagan, Kiley Brandt, Marcus Nicolas, Amanda Klienhans, Teithia O. Edwards, Artisan P.
2018 January ART + ACTIVISM SERIES: In Conversation with our Environment. Host: Lauren Baker
Panelists: Jeff Murphy (Artist) & Holly Parker (Surfrider Foundation Ecological Expert)