Education
2016 Visual arts studies (2 years full-time), Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
2013 Art Education Courses, UBC, Vancouver, BC
2012 Art for Social Change with Drs. Judith Marcuse and Lynn Fels, SFU, Vancouver, BC
1992 BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
Exhibitions
2019 inter.action, Studio Lab Gallery, New Glasgow, NS (duo)
2019 Eudaimonia, Corridor Gallery, Halifax, NS (solo)
2018 Book Matters, Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness, NS
2017 Directions for the Mind, Parking Spot Projects, Vancouver, BC (solo)
2016 Cultivate a Spot, Library Window Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC (solo)
2016 Not Sent Letters & Guests, Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, BC
2016 Cultivate a Spot, Studio 1398, exhibit in conjunction with OURO (solo)
2013 Memory, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2012 Today and Tomorrow, Art Association Bad Aibling, Bad Aibling, Germany
2012 Here Today, Britannia Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC (duo)
2012 Mayworks, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC
1999 Fix, Stoodeo Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1996 Architecture Now and Then, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1995 The Body, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1994 Full Frame, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1992 Nothing Personal, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS (solo)
Self-directed projects in public spaces
2016 Cultivate a Spot, an Intervention at an out-of-service telephone booth, documentation produced in the form of mail art postcards and a publication, Vancouver, BC
2015 Health Information Bulletin: 2010HLS0035-000768, Poster Intervention at walk-in clinics, Vancouver, BC
2015 Cause & Effect, Interviews and zines as Intervention, distribution through friends, cafes, grocery store shelves, free libraries, Vancouver, BC
2014 #sthotherthanaselfie, Instagram Intervention March 9-15 at https://instagram.com/laurabucci/
2013 The Minimum Wage, Temporary Installation of a craftivist project on North Grandview Highway at Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC
Curatorial Projects
2013 This is where I go, an international, themed mail art exhibition, Britannia Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Art/Book Fairs Participation
2016 Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver, BC
2016 Friendly Book Fair, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
2015 Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver, BC
Residencies
2019 Alchemy, Hillier, Ontario
Art Instruction & Community Events
2014 – 2010 Teaching workshops in collage, image transfer, mail art, and craftivism at Vancouver Draw Down, Britannia Community Centre, Britannia Art Gallery, West Point Gray Academy (children), The Richmond Art Gallery, and Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, Artful Sundays, Stone Soup Festival, The Word on The Street, International Mother Language Day, Joy Kogawa House
Artist Talks & Public Speaking
2019 Artist Talk, inter.action, Studio Lab Gallery, New Glasgow, NS
2016 Artist Talk, Cultivate a Spot, at PACE, OURO Collective’s dance performance, Studio 1398, Vancouver, BC
2013 Pecha Kucha Richmond, Presented with other artists on the theme of Identity, organized by the Richmond Art Gallery, Cinevolution Media Arts Society, and Richmond Public Art, link to presentation
2010 Surface Design Association, Vancouver Chapter, Panel Discussion on Marketing for Creatives
Professional Service
2019 Grant writing for artists since 2014, Vancouver, BC
2016 Juror, Richmond Art Public Program, Richmond, BC
2016 Organizing Member for Emily Carr University students & alumni participation at the Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver, BC
2013 Project Assistant & Selection Committee Member (2 years) for East FEAST micro-fund, Britannia Community Services Society, Vancouver, BC (Funding Emerging Artists through Sustainable Tactics)
2013 Arts & Culture Committee Member since 2009, Britannia Community Services Society, Vancouver, BC
2011 Selection Committee Member for the Aboriginal Artist Residency, Britannia Community Services Society, Vancouver, BC
Press
Artist connects the yarns of conversation, The Advocate, March 6 2019: 4. Print.
A World of Artist Journal Pages, Curated by Dawn Devries Sokol, Abrams Publishing, 2015, New York, link to Amazon
Five cool Crawl finds to tempt wanderers, The Georgia Straight, November 25 2010, link to PDF
Look out for Laura Bucci at the East Side Culture Crawl, Scout Magazine, November 9 2010, link to website
Art-related Published Writing
Casting on, doing good, This Magazine, March/April 2007: 39. Print.
Member Profile – Ron Bazar, Craft Contacts, Craft Association of BC, June/July/Aug 2007: 1. Print.
Wild Fire: Art as Activism, Book Review, Herizons Magazine, Spring 2007: 47. Print.
Whatcha mean, what’s a zine?, Book Review, Shameless Magazine, Fall/Winter 2006: 44. Print.
Andrew Bell – Motorwerks 3: Sinister Refinements, Exhibition Review, Artichoke, Summer 1999: 50-51. Print.
Awards
1991 Scholarship from Emily Carr College of Art and Design
1991 BC Ministry of Education and Culture Award