Laurie Jo Reynolds is an American artist most known for her work in policy and social practice. She is a current Assistant Professor of Social Justice at the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[1] She was awarded a Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art in 2014, a Creative Capital award for Emerging Fields in 2013,[2] and a Creative Time Annenberg Prize in 2013.[3] Working in what she calls "legislative art," her work primarily manifests outside the gallery or museum,[4] though she has been included in exhibitions at the Santa Monica Museum, and the Van Abbemuseum.[5][6]