Lauren Gregory is a multidisciplinary artist and educator born and raised in the mountains of East Tennessee, the fourth in a lineage of Southern female painters and quilters. Her practice bridges painting, animation, and quilting, exploring themes of storytelling and the interplay between tradition and technology. Initially trained as a portrait painter, she later taught herself stop-motion animation to bring her paintings to life. In recent years, quilting, a craft she learned as a child from the matriarchs in her family, has become central to her work. She is particularly interested in integrating digital imagery and internet culture into this age-old art form. Since receiving an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she has created GIFs, looped video installations, and animated shorts that have screened at MoMA PS1, the New Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, the Frist Museum, and at film festivals worldwide. Her animation and directing work includes commissions from publications such as the Washington Post and music videos for Leonard Cohen, Norah Jones, James Taylor, Sarah McLachlan, and Toro y Moi. She has been awarded residencies in Hungary, Italy, and New York. Lauren currently teaches animation at Parsons School of Design and quilting at Kentucky College of Art and Design and at Ox-Bow School of Art, and is a graduate student mentor at Belmont University. She lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee, where she shows work with Red Arrow Gallery.