Laurene Krasny Brown, CA

Laurene Krasny Brown was born and raised in New York City. She attended The High School of Music and Art as a music major with higher degrees from Cornell University (B.S.), Columbia University (M.A.) and a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University. She has broad professional experience in education, the arts, research and children’s cognitive development. (This includes teaching and evaluating for the National Head Start Program, being educational toy consultant at FAO Schwarz, conducting market research for major advertisers of children’s products, consulting with producers at Children’s Television Workshop, testifying about food advertising to children before the FTC and co-directing six years of research on children’s learning from media at Harvard Project Zero.)

Prior to her career in fine art, Laurene authored and for one title, illustrated seventeen popular picture books for young children. Mostly non-fiction, these include titles dealing with well-being, divorce, death, sexuality and friendship. Most recently she collaborated with her husband Marc Brown on their joint publication, Democracy for Dinosaurs: A Guide for Young Citizens.

For the past twenty years, however, she has turned her attention to fine art. Inspired by American folk art and working primarily in paper, Laurene has created work in collage, in relief and as three dimensional constructions. Her art has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, with galleries in NYC, Boston and New England. Her solo gallery exhibitions include shows at Stephen Score Art and Antiques, American Primitive Gallery, Olde Hope Antiques, Brian Morris Gallery, Shaw Cramer and Copley Society of Art. She has been a Visiting Artist working and exhibiting in Amherst Virginia, Paros Greece, Auvillar, Marnay-sur-Seine, Arles and Vallauris France and at The American Academy in Rome. Her first solo museum show was on exhibit at Fenimore Art Museum in 2021.