Mia LaBerge (born 1967, Minneapolis[citation needed]) is an American artist who painted the first Steinway Art Case Piano created to honor a university.
[2] In 2006, LaBerge was commissioned to paint the Madison Bluestone Art Case Piano which celebrates the hundredth anniversary of James Madison University [3] and also recognizes its status as Virginia’s first All-Steinway Music School.
The piano was exhibited in the rotunda of New York City's Steinway Hall and was ceremonially unveiled on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.[5] Steinway kept LaBerge unofficially "on call" to paint scenic music stands for the company's Madison Century series of limited-edition pianos.
[6] Circa 1990–2005, LaBerge's oil paintings were primarily realistic or painterly-realistic.
[7] Her paintings have appeared in the coffee table book Virginia's Cattle Story : The First 400 Years (ISBN 0975274511) and on the cover of youth textbook All About You : A Course in Character for Teens (ISBN 0-9710966-0-0) .