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Bio
Laura Weiler is a visual artist and arts facilitator working primarily in analog and digital collage as well as mixed media. Laura combines her love of paper ephemera and design to create dynamic and unexpected visual creations. Informed by a background in film, photography, and floral design, her compositions are both dramatic and tender, rendered with psychological layers and given vital, expressive energy.
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Laura’s work is part of the permanent collection at The Scandinavian Collage Museum in Norway. She has been published in multiple print and online publications worldwide, including editorial illustrations for Cosmopolitan, Road & Track, and Bend Magazine. Her art direction projects cover interdisciplinary ground, such as floral design for Harpo Studios, album and mural design, commercials, and films screened at the Chicago International Film Festival. She has facilitated creative experiences for public and private audiences, as well as government agencies, with a concentration on arts accessibility, creative process, and localism.​​
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In 2021, Laura co-founded the Pacific Northwest Collage Collective (PNWCC) to celebrate the medium of collage and connect regional artists. As a co-founder Laura hosted multiple experiences, gatherings, and art shows fostering paper arts and community-based art-making throughout the region.
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​Laura is now located in western Michigan by way of Portland, OR, and Chicago, IL. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring her home state and hanging out with her family and their two black cats, Winnie & Lucy.
Artist Statement
I began collaging as a means to develop a creative skill that would serve as both a therapy and catalyst for artistic growth. I am drawn to the process within collage—cutting, tearing, gluing diverse source material, and the recontextualizing of both tangible two-dimensional objects as well as elements of my own interior world onto the page. The meditative act of placement and the physicality of arranging and rearranging appeal to my desire to dismantle an existing perspective and unify seemingly disparate images, philosophies, and moods into something new.
Layering paper into playful, surreal, and surprising narratives and abstractions drive the current themes of my work. I feel inspired by the process of exploration and bring vintage paper to life by synthesizing it with rich colored paper and photographs using a modern lens. Working mainly in photomontage and antique ephemera, my collages emerge from an interdisciplinary background folding cinematic and photographic notions into the body of my work.
Influenced by collage artists Conner Dainty, Lola Dupre, Sarah Jarrett, among many others, I derive additional inspiration and fellowship from the broader art community. I look forward to deepening my skill and creative identity through collage and other mediums.
CLIENT LIST
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The Free Press - Cosmopolitan Magazine - Road & Track Magazine - Scott Edwards Architecture - Cut Me Up Magazine - Bend Magazine
Portage Public Library - Oregon Humanities - Lewis Art Consulting - Coffee People Magazine - Salvage One - Lakes Band - Teodor Wolgers
Chances Band - Deaf Telepathy - Éditions XYZ Inc. Publishing - Flammarion Publishing - Swoonworthy Magazine - Wilder Collage
Community Development Partners - Washington County Housing Authority
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EDUCATION
Columbia College Chicago, BA Film Studies, Art Direction & Cinematography - CHICAGO IL
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Release, Flammarion Publishing, Book Cover Art - CANADA
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2025 Release, Chances, Album Art & Illustration Collection - QUEBEC, CANADA
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2025 Swoonworthy Magazine, Editorial Illustration - UNITED KINGDOM
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2024 Kalamazoo Community Zine, Illustrations Contributor - KALAMAZOO MI
2024 Coffee People Magazine, Editorial Illustration - STILLWATER MN
2024 Swoonworthy Magazine, Editorial Illustration - UNITED KINGDOM
2024 La nébuleuse de la Tarentule, Book Cover - ÉDITIONS XYZ INC. - MONTREAL CA
2023 Contemporary Collage Magazine, Artist Feature & Interview - UNITED KINGDOM
2023 Colle, Artist Feature & Interview - NEW YORK NY
2023 The Free Press, Editorial Illustration USA
2022 Cut Me Up Magazine, Print and Web- NEW YORK NY
2022 Bend Magazine, Print & Web - OREGON MEDIA USA
2022 Auto & Track, Print & Web - HEARST PUBLISHING USA
2022 Oregon Humanities, Editorial Illustration, Print & Web - PORTLAND OR
2022 Collage: A Closer Look, Featured Artist - KOMMA PUBLISHING NETHERLANDS
2022 Collage Your Life, Featured Artist - STOREY PUBLISHING USA
2022 Corporeal Gestures Exhibition Catalog and Essays, Featured Artist - CLIVE KNIGHTS USA
2022 Cosmopolitan Magazine, Print & Web, “The Love Issue” - HEARST PUBLISHING USA
2021 Paper Cuts Exhibition Catalog - PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLAGE COLLECTIVE USA
2021 Collage Care, Featured Artist - KANYER PUBLISHING USA
2021 Slow Planes Chapbook, Collage Illustraiton - CHICAGO USA
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2020 Oregon Arts Watch, Featured Artsit - PORTLAND OR
MURAL DESIGN
2022 Viewfinder Building - TIGARD OR
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2025 Resident Artist, Facilitation & Program Development, Portage Public Library - PORTAGE MI​​
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2024 Guest Speaker and Artist, Wilder Collage - USA
2024 Guest Speaker and Artist, Hope Amico - PORTLAND OR
2024 Instructor & Workshop Facilitator, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center - KALAMAZOO MI
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2023-2024 Executive Committee Member & Development Team, Portage Arts Committee - PORTAGE MI
2023 Content Creation, Film Short Issue 11, Cut Me Up Magazine - NEW YORK NY
2023 Curator, Love is Love Show - PORTLAND OR
2023 Facilitator, Research & Sourcing, Heartwood Commons Community Collage Event - ALOHA OR
2023 Research Co-Lead, Naming of Ceder Rising Community Housing - BEAVERTON OR
2022 Content Creation, Film Short Issue 10 Cut Me Up Magazine - NEW YORK NY
2022 Facilitator, Milk Crate Community Collage Fundraiser - PORTLAND OR
2022 Facilitator, World Collage Day Community Collage Fundraiser - PORTLAND OR
2022 Curator, Paper Cuts II Gallery Show - WENATCHEE WA
2022 Facilitator, Paper Cuts II Community Collage Event - WENATCHEE WA
2022 Facilitator, World Collage Day Community Collage Fundraiser - PORTLAND OR
2021-2023 Co-Chair, Arts Literacy Coordinator - TIGARD OR
2021 Curator, Paper Cuts Gallery Show - WENATCHEE WA
2021 Facilitator, Paper Cuts Community Collage Event - WENATCHEE WA
2021-2023 Facilitator, International Artist Trading Card Exchange WORLDWIDE
2021 Curator, Fencwork Gallery - PORTLAND OR
202I Founder, Pacific Northwest Collage Collective - PORTLAND OR
2020-PRESENT Cut & Placed LLC, Owner, and Visual Artist - PORTLAND OR, PORTAGE MI
2020-PRESENT Workshop Instruction, ‘Introduction to Analog Collage and Creative Process’
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2017-2019 Fundraiser Design Chair, Multnomah Playschool Co-operative - PORTLAND OR
2008-2012 Floral Designer, Blümgarten Studios - CHICAGO IL
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2008 Art Director, "Good People" - Alex LeMay Productions - CHICAGO IL
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2008 Art Director, Kmart Commercial - CHICAGO IL
2007-2008 Art Director, Film & Media, Salvage One - CHICAGO IL
2002-2007 Signmaker, Merchandiser, & Floral Designer, Whole Foods Market - CHICAGO IL
2000-2002 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Film Studies, Columbia College Chicago - CHICAGO IL
2000-2002 Film Technical Department, Columbia College Chicago - CHICAGO IL
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Riverbed, Cloudhouse Gallery - KALAMAZOO MI
2024 Deaf Telepathy, Album Cover - PORTLAND OR
2024 Collage Works, Brassworks Gallery - PORTLAND OR
2024 Transfered, Factory Coffee - KALAMAZOO MI
2023 The Art of Giving, MJ Studios - KALAMAZOO MI
2023 Summer Cuts, Vein of Gold - PORTLAND OR
2023 Reconciling Masculinity, Shift Gallery - SEATTLE WA
2023 Love is Love, Plural Collective - PORTLAND OR
2022 Viewfinder Apartments, Permanent Art Exhibit & Mural - TIGARD OR
2022 The Ghost Show, Mary Elizabeth gallery - OREGON CITY OR
2022 Adobe Create, Featured Artist - INSTAGRAM USA
2022 Royal Coffee, The Crown - OAKLAND CA
2022 Exquisite Community, New Zone Gallery - EUGENE OR
2022 Paper Cuts II, Collapse Gallery - WENATCHEE WA
2022 Corporeal Gestures, Portland State Univerisity School of Architecture - PORTLAND OR
2022 Sharp Hands Gallery, Spring 2022 Collection - PORTLAND OR
2021 Art as Power, Blind Insect Gallery - PORTLAND OR
2021 Exquisite Community, The Co-ordinating Artists Studio - PORTLAND OR
2021 Paper Cuts, Collapse Gallery - WENATCHEE WA
2021 Teodor Wolgers, Album Cover- STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
2021 Lakes, Album Cover - UNITED KINGDOM
2021 Community in Collage, Fencework Gallery - PORTLAND OR
2021 Slow Planes, ‘Superterrestrial,’ Chapbook - CHICAGO IL
2020 Out of the Box, The Collage Garden, Kafé Soil - TRONDHEIM NORWAY
2019 Radical Revolution, Siren Nation Group Show, Portland City Hall - PORTLAND OR
2019-Present @cutandplaced - INSTAGRAM
2009 Chicago 43rd International Film Festival, ‘Good People,’ Art Director - CHICAGO IL
2001 Best of Film Techniques, Columbia College Chicago - CHICAGO IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Contemporary Collage Magazine, Featured Artist & Interview- 2024
Mario Zoots, Colle, Featured Artist & Interview - October 2023
Evan Gilman, Gallery Artist Interview - July 2022
Sam Kirkeegard, Kirkeegardian, Podcast - March 2022
Clara Adams, Artists of Oregon, Artist Feature - April 2021
Sam Kirkeegard, We Never Met, Podcast - January 2021
Joni Whitworth, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Future Prairie, Podcast - July 2020
Randall Derrick, Discover Collage, Artist Feature - November 2020
Shannon Lieberman, ‘Accounts to follow: Imagining the Possible,’ Oregon Arts Watch, July 16th, 2020