LAURA ANTONOW
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Program Director for the Academic Traveler
Color Theory
First Year Seminar

MFA, Parsons School of Design
BS, University of Texas at Arlington
email: antonow@olemiss.edu

Laura Antonow joined the Art Department as an adjunct faculty member in 1995. Courses she has taught include Introduction to Western Art, Introduction to Non-Western Art, Art on Location: New York, and Art on Location: London. She is currently teaching Color Theory and First Year Seminar. She also serves as the Program Director for the Academic Traveler, a non-credit educational travel program in the Division of Outreach at the University

Laura received a B.S. in Design from the University of Texas at Arlington and an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design in New York City. Prior to coming to the University of Mississippi, she served as chief lighting designer in the exhibitions department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. From 1995 to 2001 she served as principal at Oxford Lighting Consultants, an architectural and museum lighting design firm. She has continued serving as a consultant for museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville, and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

She has served on the Board of Directors, Membership Committee, and Awards Committee of the International Association of Lighting Designers and as an affiliate member of the American Institute of Architects. Locally, she has served as President of the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, on the Powerhouse Community Arts Center steering committee, and on the screening committee of the Oxford Film Festival. She is currently a sustaining member of the Municipal Art Society of New York and NAFSA: Association of International Educators.