Laurel Sparks is an abstract painter who shows at Howard Yezerski Gallery (Boston). Sparks work has been shown at The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Decordova Museum (Lincoln, MA), CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Ramapo College, Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery, and Gallery at Green Street (Boston). Awards include a Berkshire Taconic Artist Grant, SMFA Alumni Traveling Scholarship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, and an Elaine de Kooning Fellowship. Her work has been reviewed in the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix and Big Red & Shiny. Sparks holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an MFA from Bard College. She currently teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, MFA Program.