Laurel Roth Hope

{{Short description|American artist and naturalist (born 1973)}}

Laurel Roth Hope, sometimes known as Laurel Roth (born 1973), is an American artist.

A native of Concord, California,{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/laurel-roth-hope-30192|title=Laurel Roth Hope|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=May 14, 2019}} Roth Hope works in San Francisco. Self-taught as both an artist and a naturalist, she has called herself "an artist that wishes she was a scientist", which is reflected in her work.{{Cite web|url=https://stateoftheart.crystalbridges.org/blog/project/laurel-roth-hope/|title=Laurel Roth Hope | State of The Art|accessdate=May 14, 2019}} Before turning to art full-time she was a park ranger, and also pursued a career in nature conservation.{{Cite web|url=https://cclarkgallery.com/artists/bios/laurel-roth-hope|title=Laurel Roth Hope | Biography | Catharine Clark Gallery|website=cclarkgallery.com|accessdate=May 14, 2019}} In her series of "Biodiversity Reclamation Suits" she designed and crocheted costumes for pigeons designed to mimic the feathers and coloration of extinct birds, such as the dodo and the Seychelles parakeet.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/08/biodiversity-reclamation-suits-laurel-roth-hope/|title=Biodiversity Reclamation Suits: Extinct Bird Costumes for Urban Pigeons Crocheted by Laurel Roth Hope|date=Aug 15, 2017|accessdate=May 14, 2019}} Roth Hope was among the artists featured in the exhibit 40 Under 40: Craft Futures at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art,{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/renwick40|title=40 under 40: Craft Futures|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=May 13, 2019}} and two of her pieces were subsequently accessioned by the museum.{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/biodiversity-reclamation-suit-passenger-pigeon-83924|title=Biodiversity Reclamation Suit: Passenger Pigeon|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=May 14, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/biodiversity-reclamation-suit-carolina-parakeet-83925|title=Biodiversity Reclamation Suit: Carolina Parakeet|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=May 14, 2019}}