Linda Lauro-Lazin’s exhibition Legacy: My Teachers and Students poses the question: What, if anything, do artists pass down from one generation to the next through the teaching process? It brings together Lauro-Lazin’s work with that of some of her teachers—including Alex Minewski, Judy Pfaff, and Michael Brennan—and students, including Crystal Benitez, Sherie Weldon, Hank Bhatia, Ruyin Tsai, Amira Dughri, Phoebe Todd, and Jake Wright. In this panel discussion, moderated by artist George Kimmerling, Lauro-Lazin and artists participating in the show will consider whether, through teaching, does an artist's work become bi-directional and can we recognize creative DNA? 

About the artist: Linda Lauro-Lazin is a visual artist, an educator, and a technologist, developing a vernacular of digital mark-making and abstraction that conflates analog and digital painting. She is the Assistant Chair of the Department of Digital Arts in the School of Art at Pratt Institute. Lauro-Lazin is a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of the Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency and Fondation Karolyi Residency. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at BAU Gallery, the Knockdown Center, and the Dorsky Museum. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute and an MA from New York Institute of Technology.