Liss LaFleur is an artist, educator, and organizer based in Texas.
She’s a 2026 Creative Capital awardee working across glass, installation, and immersive media. Her work is collaborative and research-driven, exploring queer embodiment, feminist archives, and care as a practiced form. Learn more.
Liss is an Associate Professor of New Media Art and Feminist Discourse at the University of North Texas and the founder of the Future Feminist Lab, where her artistic, pedagogical, and research practices intersect. Learn more.
LaFleur is also a cultural organizer, which means she works collaboratively to design and sustain structures that support artists, scholars, and communities, and enable creative work to function as a driver of collective change. Learn more.
Even when presented separately, these roles tend to live jumbled together—moving between studio, classroom, and community as interconnected sites of experimentation.
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New media art is a choreography between the body and technology
Produced by the Onstead Institute and Tamarind Studios, this short film offers an intimate look at artist Liss LaFleur’s practice and approach to new media art. Emphasizing adaptability and accessibility, LaFleur explores how artworks transform through process, installation, and audience interaction.
The video also introduces The Queer Birth Project, an interdisciplinary, research-based artwork reflecting on LGBTQ+ childbirth and family formation in the United States. Developed in collaboration with sociologist Katherine Sobering, the project re-envisions Judy Chicago’s Birth Project (1980–85) through a contemporary, post-Roe lens—advocating for reproductive justice, queer kinship, and radically inclusive futures of care and belonging.
Immersive Art, Onstead Institute, 2024
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Digital series produced in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute on the relationship between art and parenthood premiering January 30, 2026.
CREATIVE CAPITAL
The Queer Birth Project named a 2026 Creative Capital awardee