Laurie Jo Reynolds is an American artist most known for her work in policy and social practice.
[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] In 2008, Reynolds organized the Tamms Year Ten project, in collaboration with the art historian Stephen Eisenman, attorney Jean Snyder, and poet Nadya Pittendrigh.
The project sought to and led to the closure of the Tamms C-Maxx prison in 2013.
Reynolds, an artist who emerged as leader of the Tamms Poetry Committee, coined the term "legislative art" in order to raise awareness around the extreme solitary conditions that the prisoners were being kept in.