Lauren Rosenthal McManus lives and works in Lambertville, New Jersey. She is an eco-artist whose work emphasizes the innate beauty and universal importance of the natural world. McManus’s work is held in several institutional collections, including the Nurture Nature Center, the Charlotte Museum of History, and the Bank of America Collection. She holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she was an urban livability fellow. When asked to create her brother’s wedding ketubah in 2008, Lauren stumbled upon a bridge between her work as a fine artist and her conviction that community is the current of life. With the support of generous mentors, encouraging friends, and loved ones, she has since made hundreds of wedding contracts for every kind of ceremony, including her own interfaith marriage.

Lauren is also a certified picture framer, using her creativity and craftsmanship to pair art, documents, and heirlooms with frames that help them shine. Through thoughtful visual presentation, she strives to honor the stories, pictures, places, and moments that bind us to one another, the earth, and the stars.