Lauren Raine

Who is Lauren Raine?

Lauren Raine is a painter, sculptor, mask artist, performance artist, author, and choreographer with work in international private and public collections. She was Director of Rites of Passage Gallery in Berkeley, California. After studying mask traditions in Bali, she created a collection of 35 multi-cultural, mythological "Masks of the Goddess" which she conceived of as "Contemporary Temple Masks". From 1999 to 2008 the collection traveled throughout the U.S., in use by numerous groups of performers, ritualists and teachers. In 2007 she initiated 3 community art projects based upon a Native American creation myth, "Spider Woman's Hands". She is a recipient of the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center Fellowship for the year 2007, Resident Artist at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. in 2009, and resident artist at Gallery 408 in Carrizozo, N.M in 2010.