The Austin College Department of Art and Art History will host the exhibit "Overlay 2: Recent Works by Laurie Weller" March 22 through April 23 in the Wilma and Terence Dennis Gallery of the Forster Art Studio Complex on the north side of campus. The exhibit, open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is free to the public.

Laurie Weller, who has served as a visiting member of the Austin College art faculty during various terms, studied painting at the University of Illinois and painting and printmaking at Tyler School of Art at Temple University. She moved to Texas in 1980 and has taught at Southwest Texas State University, Texas A&M at Corpus Christi, and Austin College.

Since 1998, she has served as an adjunct professor of art and graduate faculty at Texas Woman's University. Artist residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and Atlantic Center for the Visual Arts were pivotal experiences. Weller lives with her artist husband, two children, a dog, and two cats in a home/studio in the woods outside Denton.

Weller, first known for her contemporary work in watercolor, now paints primarily in acrylic on wood. Her paintings have been exhibited regionally as well as nationally and are included in corporate and private collections. Past exhibitions include "Watercolor USA 86: The Monumental Image" at Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Mo.; "Private Treasures: Public View" at the San Antonio Museum of Art; and "New Works 1984" at Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin, along with numerous solo exhibitions in private and university galleries. Her work recently was included in the "Couples who Create" exhibition at the Visual Art Center in Denton.