Lauren Bon

Lauren Bon was born in 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut and currently works and lives in Los Angeles, California. She has a Masters Degree in Architecture from MIT and an Art BA from Princeton. Bon is also trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and Founder of “Not A Cornfield”. Thanks to her education, artistic initiatives and access to funds she has developed impressive land art projects. Just to name a few of her pieces there is “Bees and Meat”, the “Releasing Fear Project”, “Farmlab”, “Anatomy “ and “The Strawberry Flag.”

Lauren's project titled "Releasing Fear" at the Belfast Art Festival in 1999 aimed at releasing children's fears by ritually burning the pieces of paper on which these fears were written on. Each kid was asked to put down one fear, some reported several. But only one boy said that he wasn’t afraid of anything.  Later as planned on Halloween night Lauren's rafts with torches floated down the Lagoon in Northern Ireland.

Another piece titled "The Strawberry Flag"

Strawberry Flag has been instrumental in defining space for the people who need it the most. Veterans are working daily on the site and on artwork. They are developing new skills to transfer to the outside workplace. They are part of an art work, an artwork that reclaims lives -- in this case by cultivating strawberries.

Her most Famous piece is "Not A Cornfield" which was when she cleaned 32 acres of land and planted one million seeds."This art piece redeems a lost fertile ground, transforming what was left from the industrial era into a renewed space for the public." She chose corn because of its origin and how it has migrated around the world.

Bon seems to be an artist who is trying to solve both social and environmental problems. She produces green Art projects that also say something about an underlying social problem.