Lauren Verdugo

2022 Fall Session II

Lauren (they/them) is a Southern California based artist and furniture maker. They received their AA in Arts and Humanities from Chaffey College in 2017 and in 2021, completed their BA in Applied Design at San Diego State University with an emphasis in Furniture Design and Woodworking. Lauren is an instructor at both The Maloof Foundation in Alta Loma, CA and Allied Woodshop in Los Angeles, CA. Lauren’s work ranges from furni­ture to sculp­ture with no limi­ta­tions on mixing media. Found objects, steel, wood and card­board are all in constant exper­i­men­ta­tion. They are a recip­i­ent of a 2020 Cali­for­nia Arts Council grant, an Art Council Award from the School of Art and Design at SDSU, and has been featured in various South­ern Cali­for­nia based art publi­ca­tions includ­ing Wood­worker West Magazine and Curious Publishing. Lauren was also featured in the Shaping Wood, Shaping Artists exhibit at the Chaffey Community Museum of Art in January 2020 and displayed their work most recently at the Ontario International Airport in Ontario, CA.