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Featured Artist for the 60th Annual Sierra Madre Art Fair
The Friends of the Sierra Madre Public Library are proud to announce that the Featured Artist for the 60th Annual Sierra Madre Art Fair is Laura Wambsgans.
A native Californian, Laura Wambsgans embarked on her journey into landscape oil painting nineteen years ago, following a successful tenure as the managing director of a major recording studio and two decades as a sculptor. Under the guidance of renowned artist Matt Smith and other esteemed landscape painters, she immersed herself in intensive studies, painting daily to master the intricacies of capturing the interplay of light and land through color and paint quality.
Wambsgans’ artistic contributions have graced both solo and group exhibitions nationwide, including prominent venues such as the Riverside Museum, Bakersfield Museum, Lancaster Museum, and Ventura Museum. Since 1986, she has actively participated in numerous national plein air events. In 2006, Laura took the lead in the “Chasing Open Spaces” environmental project, dedicated to depicting the open spaces of the Santa Clarita Valley. The exhibits resulting from this initiative played a pivotal role in the preservation of Elsmere Canyon in Santa Clarita, CA.