Laurie Macfee

Laurie Macfee (she/her) is a poet, artist, art administrator, and educator. She joined the Arts Research Center in 2018 and was named Associate Director in 2021; she manages all programs and day-to-day operations of the center. She was a cohort leader and facilator of ARC's Poetry & Senses program (2020-2024), including designing the Flash Reading Series and visiting writer program.  Macfee has over 15 years of arts administration experience––she managed the Writing Program as well as grants at Vermont Studio Center; served as Curator of Education and Museum School Director at the Nevada Museum of Art; directed the Contemporary Art Gallery at University of Nevada, Reno; and co-founded a non-profit art apprenticeship program for at-risk youth. Her poems have appeared in Washington Square Review, Ninth Letter, Forklift, Ohio, Tupelo Quarterly, and Rattle among others; her photos have been shown internationally and in publications which include hyperallergic.com & contemporaryperformance.com; over 200 reside in Nevada Museum of Art’s permanent collection for Project 929: Mapping the Solar. Macfee earned her M.F.A in Creative Writing/Poetry from Sierra Nevada University. She holds a B.F.A Fine Art/Photography and studied in the M.F.A. Fine Art program at University of South Florida. She is working on her first poetry MS.