Henry Lautz was born in Topeka, Kansas, and lives in Atlanta. He is in the process of re-locating to Chattanooga. Mr. Lautz's undergraduate education was at Baker University, the University of Paris (Sorbonne), and Washington University. His graduate studies were at New York University and Georgia State University. Mr. Lautz's work has been exhibited at the Oglethorpe Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Vero Beach, Florida, the Axel Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Afterimage Gallery in Dallas, Texas. His three sculptures in the Chattanooga State exhibit are part of an ongoing series of works named after landmarks along the Oregon Trail. Questions raised by Mr. Lautz in these works are "What do long amounts of time look like?" and "What do organic forms and human-made forms have in common, and how do they differ?"