Adjunct Professor of Graphic Information Design
Email: mlauran@gmu.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
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Professional Activities:
Maureen has served as a designer, art director or creative director for several multi-national, Fortune 500 companies in New York and Boston. She was the founder and principal designer of Sunshower Studio in Boston with clients which included Braun International, World Wildlife Fund, Simon and Schuster, Time-Life, The Gillette Corporation, and Prentice Hall.

With a B.S. in Art Education from Pratt Institute where she studied with Alex Katz, Lennart Anderson and Mercedes Matter, Maureen went on to the MFA program at Indiana University where she studied painting with William Bailey. After a year of private study in Italy, she did post-graduate work in computer science at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. In 1995 she was priveleged to study with Milton Glaser at a week-long seminar in Maine.

With publishing industry awards of merit to her credit, Maureen has also designed a line of children's toys, a board game and packaging for the toys and done work with a film production studio in Hollywood. She designed costumes and stage-set pieces for a children's play and painted murals for commercial and residential clients.

Aside from her GMU teaching, Maureen has taught Color Theory and Introductory Painting at The Smithsonian Institution. Her classes at GMU have included Graphic Information Design I, Studio Fundamentals I, Introduction to the Artist's Studio, and Senior Publication Design. Maureen maintains her design practice with clients from both government and industry.