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, finances, and day-to-day operations of ARC in concert with the Center's appointed faculty director. Macfee has over 15 years of arts administration experience including: Writing Program Manager as well as Grants Manager at the Vermont Studio Center; Curator of Education and Museum School Director at the Nevada Museum of Art; Director the Contemporary Art Gallery at University of Nevada, Reno; and Co-founder of a non-profit art apprenticeship program for at-risk youth. 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. 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.