Bio

FIFTY-FIFTY is an artist collective founded by Lisa Bulawsky and Laurencia Strauss.

Working at the intersection of individual experience and the public sphere, Fifty-fifty negotiates cultural tensions through socially engaged participatory art practices. Their work includes Portable Memories in Rising Seas at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA (2020),  Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL and at The Studios of Key West in Key West, FL (2018), the first iteration of Stories for Fishes at O Cinema Wynwood, Miami FL (2016), Ferguson (with Emily Squires) as part of Signs in the Public Sphere in Knoxville, TN (2015). 

Lisa Bulawsky is an artist/printmaker known for mixed media works on paper and temporary, participatory public projects. In her work, she explores memory, history, and subjectivities of time, correlating natural and cultural marks – the ones we leave on this world and the ones it leaves on us. She is Professor of Art at Washington University in St. Louis and the director of Island Press, the Sam Fox School’s collaborative publishing workshop.

Laurencia Strauss is a queer mixed Latinx first generation US artist and landscape architect based in Miami. Laurencia’s participatory projects, interventions, and community-based designs have been shared nationally and internationally as experiences of mutual vulnerability and care that challenge us to adapt towards a greater sense of interdependence. Amidst social and environmental justice, her work attends to grief as a catalyst. Laurencia is a Climate Resilience Specialist in Miami-Dade County.