About

Laura Mongiovi was born in Astoria, Queens, New York. She spent the early part of her childhood in New York and the latter years in Florida. Mongiovi has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Florida State University and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Colorado at Boulder. She resides in St. Augustine, Florida, a small historic town in Northeast Florida, where she is a Professor of Art at Flagler College. Mongiovi teaches across the curriculum and presents pedagogical approaches at national conferences, exhibits her work, gives artist talks and leads workshops. She initiated and co-organized the Deeper Than Indigo: Southeast Textile Symposium and is a recipient of two artist grants from The Community Foundation of Northeast Florida. Mongiovi's work has been featured in Surface Design Journal and New American Paintings and she was invited to attend the Arrowmont Pentaculum residency. Mongiovi initiated and leads a digital documentation project for historic textiles in St. Augustine, providing a public resource for this form of material culture.

Mongiovi’s artist practice relies on research to make visual work that reflects the histories of time and place. A mutual human need to satisfy sensual desire propel investigations that expose ideologies within a social construct. This array of circumstances provides a deep awareness of one’s place in the present, provoking reflection on the past and efforts toward an inclusive future. Mongiovi utilizes various processes and materials to foster a visual language that pays homage to origins.