about…

Laura Bucci is an artist and MAAE NSCAD graduate (2025). Her current research interests lean into the social sciences, specifically in examining what helps us relate in different environments. She explores how homes function as third spaces, how dialogue can be deepened, and how embodied ways of gathering can bring us together meaningfully. Through these ideas she is developing a pedagogy of dialogue and connection for her socially engaged art projects. She practiced in Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory in BC and is currently based in Kijpuktuk (Halifax) on Mi’kmaw territory in Nova Scotia.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2025 MAAE Candidate (Master of Art in Art Education), NSCAD, Halifax
2013 Art Education Courses, UBC, Vancouver
2012 Art for Social Change with Drs. Judith Marcuse and Lynn Fels, SFU, Vancouver
1992 BFA, NSCAD, Halifax

Exhibitions, Projects, Curatorial

2024
Surface Tensions, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
Propositioning the Self with Experiments in Noticing, Wonder’neath Art Society, Halifax, NS
2023
ERI 10: You’ve Got Mail, Eyelevel Artist Run Centre, Halifax, NS
The Pasta Project (ongoing), various locations and formats, NS
Community of Practice: Create/Activate/Extend, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2022
Research Notes: Loneliness and belonging through the eye of an artist, a weekly newsletter of essays, interviews, and audio recordings, Vancouver (since 2021)
2021
Fraser River Walks, Paneficio/AMP Studio Window Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
Fraser River Walks, a group walk, creative activity, and conversations along the Fraser River, Vancouver
Measures of Absence, Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness, NS
2020
Members’ Show, Access Gallery, Vancouver
Together: Communities of Healing, The Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver
2019
inter.action, Studio Lab Gallery, New Glasgow, NS (duo)
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 (solo)
2016
Cultivate a Spot, Library Window Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver (solo)
Cultivate a Spot, foyer of Studio 1398, Vancouver (solo)
Not Sent Letters & Guests, Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver
Cultivate a Spot, an intervention at a telephone booth, documentation produced in the form of mail art postcards and a publication (see line below), Vancouver
A study in community interactions, self-published publication, Vancouver Art/Book Fair and the Friendly Book Fair, ECUAD, Vancouver
2015
Health Information Bulletin: 2010HLS0035-000768, poster intervention at three medical clinics in East Vancouver, Vancouver
Cause & Effect, zine series, Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver
2014 #sthgotherthanaselfie, Instagram intervention March 9-15
2013
Memory, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond
The Minimum Wage, temporary installations of a craftivist project at public spaces in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood, Vancouver
This is where I go, international themed mail art exhibit, Britannia Art Gallery, Vanc. (role: curator)
2012
Here Today, Britannia Art Gallery, Vancouver (duo)
Today and Tomorrow, Art Association of Bad Aibling, Bad Aibling, Germany
Mayworks, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo
2010 Culture Crawl at the PNE, Vancouver
1999 Fix, Stoodeo Gallery, Vancouver
1996 Architecture Now and Then, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver
1995 The Body, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver
1994 Full Frame, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver
1992 Nothing Personal, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS (solo)

Awards & Residencies

2024 Dalglish Family Foundation Bursary, NSCAD
2023 Travel Subsidy Grant, NSCAD
2023 Bursary, Dalhousie University
2022 Entrance Scholarship, NSCAD
2020 Entrance Scholarship, ECUAD
2019 Residency, Alchemy, Hillier, Ontario (devoted to exploring the synergy between artistic practice and the cooking and sharing of locally grown food in a community setting)   
1991 Scholarship, BC Ministry of Education and Culture

Presentations, Artist Talks, Invitations

2024
Guest artist for the MFA Forum. I co-hosted an informal conversation about Critique as Gift, with artist Katherine Rae Diemert, NSCAD, Halifax.
Bucci, L. (2024, June 27-30). Curating Togetherness in Pedagogical Events and Social Practice [Graduate Symposium]; Critique as Gift [Workshop Presentation]. Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Halifax, NS, Canada.
2023 
Bucci, L. (2023, March 23-25). Teach anything and community mapping. In Building togetherness and reciprocity as quiet resistance [Symposium]. 10th Biannual Provoking Curriculum Conference, London, ON, Canada.
2021
Fraser River Projects, an online collaborative presentation with artist Laurance Playford-Beaudet, CARFAC BC
Measures of Absence, artist talk, Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Nova Scotia
2019
inter.action, artist talk, Studio Lab Gallery, New Glasgow, NS
2016
Cultivate a Spot, artist talk, Studio 1398, Vancouver
2013 The Language of Art, Pecha Kucha Richmond Vol.2, organized by Richmond Art Gallery, Cinevolution’s Your Kontinent Media Arts & Film Festival and Richmond Public Art, Richmond

Press

Brimicombe, H. (2019, March 6). Artist connects the yarns of conversation. The Advocate.
Smith, J. (2010, Nov 25).  Five cool Crawl finds to tempt Wanderers. The Georgia Straight. 50.
Smith, J. (2010, Nov 9). Look out for Laura Bucci at the East Side Culture Crawl. Scout Magazine. https://scoutmagazine.ca/look-out-for-laura-bucci-during-the-east-side-culture-crawl/

Published Artwork & Art-related Writing

Bucci, L. & Diemert, K. (2025). Critique as gift. Canadian Art Teacher, 21.1 (forthcoming)
Bucci, L. (2015). Laura Bucci. In D. DeVries Sokol (Ed.), A world of artist journal pages (pp. 38–39). Stewart, Tabori, & Chang.
Bucci, L. (2007, March/April). Casting on, doing good (in Arts & Idea: Activism). This Magazine, 39.
Bucci, L. (2007, June/July/Aug). Member profile – Ron Bazar (interview). Craft Contacts. 1.
Bucci, L. (2007, Spring). Wild fire: Art as activism (book review). Herizons. 47.
Bucci, L. (2006, Fall/Winter). Whatcha mean, what’s a zine? (book review). Shameless Magazine. 44.
Bucci, L. (1999, Summer). Andrew Bell – Motorwerks 3: Sinister refinements (exhibition review). Artichoke: Writings About the Visual Arts. 50-51.

Professional Service

2014-ongoing Grant Writer for artists and arts organizations
2023-ongoing Research Assistant, Flaxmobile Project, NSCAD, Halifax
2022    
Board Member, Fundraising, Outsiders & Others Arts Society, Vancouver
Programming, Membership & Communications Coordinator, CARFAC BC, Vancouver
2021    
Coordinator & Facilitator of CARFAC BC’s Program Zoom Coffee Break Conversations, BC
2020
Online Teaching Assistant, Foundation Interdisciplinary Studies Course, ECUAD, Vancouver
Selection Committee Member, Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship, ECUAD, Vanc.
2016
Juror, Richmond Public Art Program, Richmond
Organizing Member for Emily Carr University students & alumni participation at the Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver
2014 
Workshop instructor (from 2010) in cross-stitching, craftivism, mail art, collage, image transfer techniques, and drawing: Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver Draw Down, Britannia Community Centre, West Point Gray Academy, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, Artful Sundays, Stone Soup Festival, The Word On The Street, Joy Kogawa House.
2013
Arts & Culture Committee Member (from 2009), Britannia Community Services Society, Vanc.
Project Assistant & Selection Committee Member for a micro-fund, Britannia Community Services Society, Vancouver