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Lavett Ballard
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| Born | Lavett Doreen Ore June 30, 1970
East Orange, NJ
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | BA Studio Art & Art History, MFA Studio Art |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University Camden, University of the Arts Philadelphia |
| Known for | Mixed Media/ Collage & Art Installation |
| Website | www.lavettbeart.com |
Lavett Ballard (b. 1970) is an American contemporary visual artist based in Southern New Jersey. Ballard is a mixed media collage artist whose art is viewed as re-imagined visual narratives of people of African descent. Her use of mixed media collage layered imagery reflects social issues affecting primarily Women of colors stories within a historical context. Lavett Ballard's work has been commissioned as a cover twice for Time Magazine first in March 2020 for their special multi cover edition for the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage and in February 2023 for a cover and interior art for Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s essay about her book CASTE: Origins of our Discontent. Ballard’s artwork has also been used in film, television, and literary publications in addition to being acquired by many private and public institutional collections nationally and internationally. In 2023 she received a NJ State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, and in 2024 her art was included in the NAACP Image Award winning Non-Fiction book The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families by Karida L. Brown & Charly Palmer.
Lavett Ballard holds a dual Bachelor’s in Studio Art and Art History with a minor in Museum Studies from Rutgers University- Camden, and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Ballard body of work uses collaged photos adorned with paint, oil pastels, handmade papers, and metallic foils. These photos are deconstructed and layered on reclaimed large and small aged wood fences. The use of fences is a symbolic reference to how fences keep people in and out, just as racial and gender identities can do the same socially. This fusion of wood and photography offers artwork that both explores her southern roots, yet visually speaks volumes to continuing themes within her community. Ballard has expanded her core body of work on wood to include works on paper, sculpture and art Installations.
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