Laura Blacklow is on the faculty of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts She has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for works on paper, the St. Botolph Club's Morton C. Bradley Award in Color, Polaroid Corporation's Artist Support Program, and the Massachusetts Arists' Foundation Fellowship for her hand-colored, black-and-white photographs. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Photographic Resource Center and is an active participant in the arts community. Her manipulated photographic prints have been shown internationally, and reproductions of her work have appeared in numerous publications.