Lauren Elder joined the WEAD Board in 2012 and currently serves on the exhibitions committee. She is an environmental artist and designer who practices “artful functionality” in her community-built projects. Since 2000, she has co-created nine urban gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area with students and community members. She has also developed two projects near Cali, Colombia, at Nashira, an eco-village. Her artworks have recently been featured at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco. Lauren earned her B.A. in fine arts/sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and professional training in landscape architecture from UC Berkeley Extension. She received a Potrero Nuevo Environmental Award and subsequent multi-year project funding.
