October Exhibit to Feature Laura Truitt

The Edison State Community College Art Department will feature the artwork of Laura Truitt during its October exhibition. The department will display the exhibit, “Shelter,” in the Anne Vaccaro and David Myers Gallery at the Piqua Campus during normal campus hours from October 5 to October 28, 2026.

“Much of my work has to do with perspective. Linear perspective, surely, but also our emotional and collective perspective of landscape and personal space,” Truitt said. “The underlying conflict in my work is generated by climate change, land abuse, and overconsumption of all kinds, my own included. The borders and edges of images and objects illuminate barriers as well as show us current paths of entry.”

An artist and teacher living in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Truitt is currently the gallery coordinator at Rosewood Arts Center and the coordinator for adult wellness programming at the Springfield Museum of Art, and she was most recently a visiting professor at Oberlin College. In addition to completing her MFA in painting at Colorado State University, Truitt studied painting and drawing at Goucher College, the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Vermont Studio Center, and the Chicago Art Institute.

William Havu Gallery in Denver represents Truitt. She has shown her work throughout the country, including at the Jundt Art Museum in Spokane, the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, The Painting Center in New York, the Arvada Center in Colorado, Coker College in South Carolina, Wabash College in Indiana, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. She has been a featured artist in Ruminate Magazine, and Manifest Gallery published her work in its INPA 7 Painting Annual.

Learn more about Truitt at www.lauracarpentertruitt.com. For additional information about the exhibit, email Greg Clem, Edison State Professor of Fine Arts.