Artist Talk: Lauren Boilini in Conversation

Join us Thursday, November 5 at 5:30 PM for a conversation with Lauren Boilini, our 2025-26 National Artist in Residence, as she talks with the Art Center about her time on the Laguna Madre. Through the Laguna Madre Artist Residency, a partnership between the Art Center of Corpus Christi and the Center for Coastal Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Lauren spent time alone in September 2025 at the Laguna Madre Field Station. The station is an off-grid research facility on an island in the Laguna, reachable only by boat. She lived and worked surrounded by one of the most unique ecosystems on the Texas coast, then spent time in our studio turning that experience into a new body of work. About the Artist Lauren Boilini was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. She earned her BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a painter who also works in installation and public art. She has been an