Lauren Altman, a.k.a. the Tie-Dye Queen, is a multi-media artist based in Brooklyn, offering a playful, unconventional approach to inner work and well-being through immersive performance workshops, installations, wearable art, and mixed-media paintings. Her work has been featured in Create! Magazine, Time Out New York, and What's Your Grief, among others. Peninsula Daily News highlighted Lauren as a guide to "Being One's Own Art Therapist."
She has led Coping Creatively workshops in partnership with art, wellness, and community spaces, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Primal Awakening Women's Retreat at the ChoZen Eco-Sanctuary in Florida, and Scouts of America. Lauren's teaching has been featured on Draw Together, an art-making show focused on social-emotional learning (SEL) created by New York Times Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton. She has also received grants to share her approach to art from apps, including TikTok and Tangi by Google.
Lauren's work has been exhibited by New York galleries and non-profits including David Nolan Gallery, Art She Says Salon, ChaShaMa, and House of Yes; international venues include Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán in Mérida, Mexico; Superfine! Art Fair in Miami; and the Centre for Substructured Loss in London.
She holds a BFA in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design, an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby's Institute of Art, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received the Pittman Family Scholarship and a PennDesign Grant to attend the Chennai Artist Residency in India. She has been invited to participate in conversations regarding mental health at Columbia University Center for Complicated Grief as well as National Organization Arts in Health, where she received a scholarship from the Laurie Tish Illumination Fund.
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