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Laura Cunningham has worked as a scientific illustrator for the Paleontology Museum at U.C. Berkeley, contributing such things as Mesozoic mammal teeth illustrations and a drawing of a juvenile Triceratops skull for technical journals. She has illustrated fossil invertebrates (Bryozoa) for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
She has produced several murals of whales and riparian plants for interpretive signs in Santa Cruz, and a pine woodland mural for a museum in Florida.
A current project is a 60-inch long oil painting for a St. George, Utah, paleoart show of the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Utah, showing dinosaurs, early terrestrial crocodilians, mammal-like reptiles, and an array of extinct plants.
She also is illustrating a book that shows the historic fauna of California: grizzlies, elk, antelope, condors, and salmon, for Heyday Books of Berkeley.
Laura has participated in numerous art shows around the country, including the Pacific Rim Wildlife Art Show in Seattle, shows at the Oakland Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and Carnegie Museum.
Laura is currently working at California State University, Fresno on a 30' high mural depicting the San Joaquin valley as it looked over 65 million years ago during the age of the dinosaurs. At that time, much of the valley was underwater and the Sierra Nevada Mountains formed a series of volcanic islands. Large marine reptiles such as mosasaurs dominated the ocean and large flying pteranodons (fish eaters) flew overhead. |
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