Natalie McLaurin spent the first eighteen years of her life in Knoxville, TN, the oldest of three. At her preschool interview, the teacher was surprised by her amazing scissor skills. Her father is a logger and her mother is an architect, turned yarn shop owner. Her grandmother taught her to knit at the age of four, a feat that tells more about her grandmother than Natalie. She frequently won kite-flying contests as a young child and was lucky enough to go to New Prospect Art Center in the summers, where she learned how to use a loom, pottery wheel and many other crafts and was taught by many artists that use craft as their medium.

Natalie was away from Knoxville for 19 years and came back in 2020.

"A morsel of the mother experience, scrapping of the plan, scraping work from chaos, good in places, mess in others, a pictures of life as it is." - Rae Jacobson
My work has always been about expectations and private verses public. The last 5 years it has been focused on motherhood, previous to that it was about being a woman.
Making a joke out of the pain and frustration of being a mom and a woman.