Kimberly Laudert CV

Updated 5/30/2025

Grants, Awards, & Recognitions

2025

  • Creative Support for Individuals, Minnesota State Arts Board

2023

  • Arts Impact for Individuals, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council

2022

  • Creative Support for Individuals, Minnesota State Arts Board

2021

  • Creative Support for Individuals, Minnesota State Arts Board

Solo Exhibitions

2024

  • Primary Purpose, Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality, St Paul, MN

2021

  • Untitled, Hennepin County Library, East Lake, Minneapolis, MN

2020

  • Alchemy, Hennepin County Library, East Lake, Minneapolis, MN

2019

  • Untitled, Hennepin County Library, Franklin, Minneapolis, MN  

Three-Person Show

2023

  • 3 Fiber Artists, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

Group Exhibitions

2024

  • Eye to Eye, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

  • Yulemart, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 

2023

  • A Common Thread, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

  • Eye to Eye: REMAKE, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

  • bed beside me, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

  • Bona Fide, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

  • Revolutionary, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2022

  • Avivo ArtWorks, Hennepin County Library, East Lake, Minneapolis, MN

  • Member Show, Ames Center for the Arts, Burnsville, MN

  • Spellbound, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

  • Eye to Eye, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

 2021

  • Avivo ArtWorks, Hennepin Theatre Trust, Minneapolis, MN

2020

  • Crossroads, Avivo ArtWorks, Hennepin Theatre Trust, Minneapolis, MN  

  • Virtual, Tiny Gallery, Nordhaus, Minneapolis, MN           

  • Seeing God, St. Benedictine Monastery, St. Paul, MN                     

  • Together We Thrive, Avivo ArtWorks, MSP Airport, Bloomington, MN                   

  • Beauty of it All, Avivo ArtWorks, Minneapolis, MN

2019

  • Breaking Barriers Through the Arts, Avivo ArtWorks, Minneapolis, MN    

  • Art Made in Community, Avivo ArtWorks, Minneapolis, MN                       

  • United Practice, Avivo ArtWorks, Minneapolis, MN

2018

  • Artability, Science Museum, St. Paul, MN           

  • Sower Gallery, Chaska, MN

Residencies

2024

  • Everwood Farmstead Foundation, Glenwood City, WI

Art Fairs and Crawls

2025

  • Art-A-Whirl

2022

  • Art-A-Whirl

2019

  • Artability, The Show Gallery, St. Paul, MN

2019- 2021

  • Avivo ArtWorks Summer Market, Minneapolis, MN

2018

  • Artability Art Show and Sale, People Incorporated

  • Artability at Art-A-Whirl, Minneapolis, MN

  • Artability at St. Paul Art Crawl, St. Paul, MN

1994-97

  • Wild Women’s Artisan, Grandma’s Farm, Hastings, MN

Teaching Experience

2023

Unpacking Our Histories, workshop in writing, weaving, and the breath

2022

Our Personal Stories in Resilience, workshop in writing poetry
2021

Addressing Stigma in Ourselves and Others, workshop in needle felting

Publications

2023

  • Our Personal Stories: in Resilience, self-published

2022

  • “Old Woman” Inspired, Compas & Avivo ArtWorks, Editor Alison Berglom Johnson

2017

  • “Arugula” and other poems, Springhill Community Farm, Celebrating 20 Years of Food and Community

 

Readings and Lectures

2023

  • Our Personal Stories: in Resilience, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2017

  • “Artability: Client Stories,” People Incorporated, St. Paul, MN

2011

  • Poetry Reading, True Colors, Minneapolis, MN Press

Mentorships

  • Chiaki O’Brien, Bloomington, MN

  • Carolyn Halliday, Minneapolis, MN

Current Memberships

  • Minnesota Feltmakers Guild, Minneapolis, MN

  • Weavers Guild of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

  • Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

Past Memberships

2022

  • Loft Literary Center       

2015

  • VSA MN Member 

Related Experience

2025

  • Accessibility Advisory Committee Member, Highpoint Center for Printmaking

2024

  • Community Panel Member for New Artist Selection, COMPAS

2022 – Current

  • Fresh Eye Artist, Fresh Eye Arts, St. Paul, MN

2021

  • Participant, The Felted Mural Project, Grand Marais, Minnesota

2019 - 2022

  • Collective Member, Avivo ArtWorks, Minneapolis, MN

1990 – 2000

  • Contemporary Relics Arts, Business Owner, Minneapolis, MN

1995 – 1998

  • Substitute Teacher, City of Lakes Waldorf School, Minneapolis, MN

1993 – 2000

  • Contemporary Relish, Business Owner (catering and personal chef), Minneapolis, MN

1982 – 1987

  • Art and Play Therapy, Golden Valley Health Center, Golden Valley, MN

1982 – 2013

  • Social Service-Related Work

Education

2023

  • Participant, basket weaving, instructor: Martha Bird

2017 – 2018

Artability Classes (fiber, acrylic, charcoal, pastels, etc.)    

1982

  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, University of Minnesota, Duluth (Departmental Honors)