From Our Voices: Art Educators and Artists Speak Out about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Issues

Laurel Lampela is Professor Emerita in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico where she taught in the Art Education Program. Prior to that she taught Art Education in the Department of Art at Cleveland State University in Ohio and in the Department of Art at Marshall University in West Virginia. Laurel taught high school art in Wisconsin and taught elementary art in Ohio. 

She is co-founder of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Issues Caucus of the National Art Education association; author of A Practical Guide to Supplement the Teaching of Secondary Art Methods (Kendall Hunt, 2010); and co-editor of From Our Voices: Art Educators and Artists Speak out About Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Issues (Kendall Hunt, 2003). 

She is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force serving 10 years as a Public Affairs Officer including three years active duty and seven years in the Air Force Reserves.