Laurie M. Goddard, an artist from western Massachusetts, received her BFA in printmaking from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. She has traveled extensively, most recently as an art ambassador in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia for Art in the Embassies. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and in many private collections, including those of Claude Picasso, Donna Karan, and Amherst College. Her paintings have been exhibited at Hewar Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Nadine Gallery, Manama, Bahrain; the U.S. Embassies to Cameroon, Poland, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia; and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. (updated 9/2019)