About Dona
Dona Laurita is an artist, creative mentor, photographer, and teaching artist.
Her work helps people turn real life into photographs, visual stories, creative projects, and community work that can be seen, shared, and remembered. Photography is central to her practice, but the deeper work is helping people tell the truth with care.
Practice
For more than 40 years, Dona has helped people make images from real life.
Her practice includes portraiture, legacy and end-of-life storytelling, documentary projects, mixed-media work, exhibitions, creative mentorship, and teaching residencies across Colorado.
Again and again, her work returns to one question: how can an image help us see one another more clearly?
40+
Years of professional image-making, teaching, mentorship, and visual storytelling.
1999
Teaching artist residencies across Colorado since 1999.
NEA
National Endowment for the Arts-supported Stories Matter project.
CO
Boulder and Colorado-rooted work across schools, communities, galleries, and families.
Throughline
Images, mentorship, and community work with a practical purpose.
Portraits
Personal images that help people recognize themselves without being pushed into performance.
Mentorship
Creative guidance for people turning memory, change, grief, imagination, or a new idea into a real body of work.
Community
Collaborations and teaching work that help students, families, and communities make a record of what they have lived.