August 2023: Maloof Foundation as well as Allied Woodshop representatives, Lauren Verdugo, Martin Hernandez, Maxwell Wilson, and David Johnson worked with Craft in America film woodworking definitions “in-action” to be used in their forthcoming Craft Video Dictionary project through the Decorative Arts Fund.
AD IT YOURSELF
Transform a Cheap Lawn Chair Into a Piece of Art—Two Furniture Designers Show You How. Alex Hsu and Lauren Verdugo give a humble Walmart chair a stylish makeover in a new video. Article by Shivani Vora for Architectural Digest, May 2022
Watch Lauren Verdugo and Alex Hsu transform a lawn chair with Architectural Digest: Custom Crafted!
LA WEEKLY: Kamishibai Collaboration
Through LA based multimedia artist, Alan Hiroshi Nakagawa, Lauren designed a Kamishibai theater for the Claremont Los Angeles County Public Library.
The Nature of Sculpture II / Group show at the Los Angeles Arboretum
(NEW DATES: March 2021-March 2022)
On Different Ground
at Chaffey Community Museum of Art
South Gallery, April 16 to May 21, 2022
Celebrating the artwork of Dan Frembling, Cathy Garcia, Larry D. Riggs, Jennifer Sundstrom, Lauren Verdugo and Jerry Weems.
CURIOUS:
Empathy + Resilience out
now!
Featuring proposed Soapbox Empathy Project with Jordan Velez, Lauren Verdugo, and Rebecca Ustrell and many other local artists.
Museum Explorers: Portraits and Sculptures!
March 7th from 2:00pm-3:30pm at The Ontario Museum of Art
Convergent Discourse
May through December 2019, Show with Larry White and myself in the Maloof Foundation Lemon Grove
Featured artist in Curious: LATINX Issue
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Sam Maloof: Shaping Wood, Shaping Artists
Ontario Museum of Art / Chaffey Community Museum of Art
Spotlight Gallery:
Twice Removed
Lauren Verdugo
February 20 through March 22, 2020 at the Chaffey Community Museum of History and Art
VoyageLA Magazine: Meet Lauren Verdugo
March 2019
Woodworker West Magazine,
January/February 2018 for Coverage on Forces of Nature II at the Los Angeles Arboretum
Forces of Nature II at the Los Angeles Arboretum
December 7-10, 2017 // Both works included in the silent auction and raised over 1600 dollars for their tree fund to replace fallen or diseased trees at the Arboretum.