Laura Paulsen Howe

Laura Paulsen Howe is Art Curator over Global Acquisitions at the Church History Museum. After receiving her master’s degree in art history and curatorial studies at Brigham Young University, she taught art history and writing at BYU before beginning her current position in 2019. She curated the 12th International Art Competition: All Are Alike unto God and With This Covenant in My Heart: The Art and Faith of Minerva Teichert. Her research has focused on places of display, analyzing how the meaning of a work changes when shown in different environments. She will author a chapter on the history of international art competitions at the Museum of Church History and Art to be published in an anthology of Latter-day Saint art by Oxford University Press in 2025.