Lauren Otis

Lauren Otis

Lauren Otis

Executive Director
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Lauren Otis is Executive Director of Artworks, Trenton’s visual art center. At Artworks, he has overseen multiple public art projects, including the 2019 restoration of internationally famous artist Nam June Paik’s monumental neon and video installation in Trenton, PBS (1963-2000). Along with multiple stakeholders, he is currently engaged in planning for Trenton’s Artwalk project, which will use public murals, sculpture and lighting installations to beautify and improve the pedestrian route along a highway underpass linking the Trenton Transit Center and downtown Trenton. Lauren’s own art and photography has been exhibited widely in the region, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Trenton Times, Poets & Writers, PlanetTrenton.org, and elsewhere. 

Sessions

March 6, 2020
Everyone’s a critic: Public art’s role in redevelopment
Garden State A
11:00 AM  -  12:30 PM