Lara Lepionka is an inter-disciplinary, community-based artist living in Gloucester, MA. She was awarded commissions from the Northampton Arts Council and seARTS Partner with an Artist Program in Massachusetts to complete public art projects about people and their work. She is featured in the 2007 anthology, The Object of Labor: Critical Perspectives on Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production, published by MIT Press. Lepionka was an artist-in-residence at Cultural Exchange Station in Tabor, Czech Republic, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, and Millay Colony for the Arts. She has exhibited her work in New England and New York, and her work has been on National Public Radio, Community Arts Network APInews, and labor publications and broadcasts. She is the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant, Community Development Block Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award, and two Chicago Community Arts Program Grants. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from Bard College, New York.