Biography
Laray Polk is a writer and multimedia artist. Her articles have appeared in print in The Dallas Morning News and online at Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Pacific Free Press, Sri Lanka Guardian, and Znet.
Her multimedia exhibitions include Gaza Zoo (a project centered around the politics of captivity); and The Beautiful Obstacle (a history of the military-industrial complex at MIT). Research projects include the study of Cambodian palm-leaf manuscripts at Cornell University, interviews with Navajo Code Talkers in New Mexico, and travel to living Maya communities and archeological sites in and around the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.
She received her BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington and an MA and MFA from the University of Dallas.
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Selected Images
Laray Polk, Polk Desk installation view, The Trinity River Project, 2016, hard cover book with ten essays first published on FrontBurner, D Magazine, set of samples and manuscripts, edition of three, dimensions variable Laray Polk, Four Water and Rock Samples, 2016, left to right Four Water Samples: Pioneer Plaza, Trinity River, tap water, Big Spring, Four Rock Samples, Sand, Pea gravel, Eagle Ford, Austin chalk, set of samples and manuscripts, edition of 3, dimensions variable