Caitlyn Lawler

Caitlyn Lawler is a practicing visual artist, writer, educator, and administrator. Her research interests are in 20th and 21st century visual culture with an emphasis in American art. She considers how critical geographies affect creative placemaking through alternative sites and spaces.

Caitlyn earned a Master of Arts in the History of Art from the University of California Riverside, a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art: Painting, and Art History from Oakland University. She has worked at nonprofit art centers and as a lecturer and teaching fellow, in addition to serving as an archival assistant for a project on a post-war Los Angeles artist whose archives were recently accepted into the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.