In each of our hands we hold gifts to share with others,
let our hands be open wide to all the experiences we encounter in our world community.
                                                                   hand  LAURA EVONNE STEINMAN   Community Artist

e-mail: handinhandarts@gmail.com  cell phone: 585 613 2612  website: www.handinhandarts.com

Laura Evonne Steinman, Community Artist has worked with people of all ages facilitating art-making in schools, community centers, neighborhood backyards, in religious institutions, senior centers, orphanages, and hospitals. She believes that lives are nurtured and transformed by creating art together. Laura received her BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and her Master of Art in Art Education (MAAE) with a Concentration in Community Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She lived in Europe (Warsaw, Poland) for 5 years teaching art after graduate school. Currently she is living in "The Nest", a co-op in Somerville, MA sewing a bunch of "Colorful Matters" using recycled remnants. Laura is the art teacher at The Gifford School in Weston, MA and the Religious Educator & Artist in Residence at Arlington Street Church (ASC), a Unitarian Universalist Congergation in Boston. During evening and weekends she teaches fabric collage and hand sewing classes along with volunteering with her cat, aka cow Krowka, cooks veggie food from here garden or CSA share from First Root Farm and totally soaks up the sunshine and dances in the rain of life!