Laurel V. McLaughlin, PhD, Curator and Director of the Collective Futures Fund, Tufts University Art Galleries, is the guest juror of Lines / Loopholes: Maine College of Art & Design 2026 Faculty Triennial, on view in the ICA from January 16 – February 21, 2026.
Laurel V. McLaughlin, PhD, is a curator, art historian, writer, and educator. Her work explores research-based sculpture, installation, new media, and social practice works activated by performance concerning formal liminalities, globalized migration, and ecological networks. McLaughlin is a Curator and the Director of the Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries. She has shared her scholarly and curatorial work in conferences ranging from PSI, Calgary; to the UAAC, Montreal, Toronto, and London; the CAA, New York; and the ASAP, Hong Kong and New York, and published her work in such as Art Papers, ASAP/J, BOMB Magazine, C Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Sculpture Magazine, Contact Quarterly, Performance Research, women & performance, and te magazine, among others. She co-edited the multidisciplinary reader Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production (Amherst College Press, 2024). Forthcoming writing from McLaughlin will be featured in the edited volumes Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance (Bloomsbury's Methuen Drama, 2025) and exhibition catalogs and readers Arnold J. Kemp: tender & haunted (No Place Press, 2026) Magical Thinking (Tufts University Art Galleries, 2026), and How do you throw a brick through the window... (Tufts University Art Galleries and John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2026). McLaughlin's scholarly and curatorial work has been supported by Rupert, Acción Cultural Española, the Dutch Consulate of New York, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Terra Foundation, and the Teiger Foundation.
Funded through the generous support of the Gene R. Cohen Charitable Foundation.