Wee Lay Laq, Laura (1952 - )

Biography

Laura Wee Lay Laq currently lives in Chilliwack, British Columbia, her father’s ancestral homeland. She attended Douglas College from 1970-1973 and majored in Fine Arts. In 1973 she was accepted into the second year Ceramic program at the Vancouver School of Art, where she graduated with Honours in Ceramics in 1977. From 1979-1981 she studied Northwest Coast design and carving with Hereditary Chief Tony Hunt in Victoria, British Columbia. Laura is a significant Canadian ceramic artist, and her original works have been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally since the late 1970s. Her work is represented in numerous museums and private and corporate collections, including MOA, and was included in MOA’s 2010 exhibition Border Zones: New Art across Cultures. Laura has taught hand-building and primitive-firing workshops for colleges, universities, and art centres in Canada, the United States, China, Australia, and Italy.