Lauren Leone

Lauren is an artist, art therapist, and mental health counselor and teaches art therapy classes at Lesley University. Her research interests include the unique therapeutic benefits of craft for art therapy practice, and how craft activism can support art therapy participants in being agents of social change, and how craft can provide a medium for engaging in art therapy with social justice aims. She explores themes of identity, connection, and communication through drawing, textiles, and mixed media and much of her art in recent years has focused on craft activism and collaborative community art projects.


No Body is Disposable/Nobody is Disposable, 2020

Image Description:

A white, rectangular piece of gauzy fabric hangs in an open window. The fabric is embroidered with an image of a woman, mid-stride, with her arm outstretched. A duplicate of the woman from the waist up is reflected in the image, facing the other way. Several small oval shapes in sparkly blue, pink, and silver thread are seen falling out of her hands and orbiting around her. The bottom of the fabric is torn into thin vertical strips. As the wind blows the fabric billows, approaching and receding from the camera. The image distorts and comes in and out of focus based on the wind’s movement. The strips at the bottom of the fabric twist and sway. The fabric billows towards the camera so that the whole frame is filled with the white strips of fabric. Embroidered on each strip is the phrase “Nobody is disposable”. The fabric blows off frame and the viewer sees directly out the window, where sun is streaming in, with visible rays. The fabric comes back into the frame and settles back into the window frame as the wind becomes gentler. Throughout the video, a sparse soundtrack of light, bell-like tones plays, sometimes receding as background noises like the wind become more pronounced.