"Congratulations Laura, we are so excited to announce that you are the chosen artist in residence for 2027 for our No Blank Canvas Program." This amazing email landed in my inbox this past Monday. I am thrilled and honored to be selected. The No Blank Canvas program is a four-year community art program to share under-told stories from Kendall County's past 175 years. History often doesn't tell stories about lives from under-represented groups, like women (my focus). Art can

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Tips for using an Archive Reading Room

A favorite author makes a memorable inscription

Fourth Annual Boerne Book and Arts Festival

Certain national and world events made it through the thicket of the “pine curtain” and into local homes, even if only via radio broadcasts.

Learn more about the world in which my upcoming novel is set

Getting back to work after a hiatus and my work in an upcoming anthology

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How and When My First Draft Came About

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