Meet Lauren
Artist, Muralist and Graphic Designer
Lauren Clayton is an artist, graphic designer, and muralist. She is the founder of Studio 162, a creative studio based in Stamford, Connecticut. A graduate of The Cooper Union School of Art in New York, she studied graphic design, photography, printmaking, and painting. As a student, she had the opportunity to intern with legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser.
Through Studio 162, Lauren partners with nonprofits organizations and mission-driven businesses to develop thoughtful visual identities, marketing campaigns and public art. Her creative practice often moves between design and fine art, using bold color, symbolism, and storytelling to explore themes of identity, connection, and transformation.
Lauren launched Studio 162 with support from the Miller Brewing Company’s Urban Entrepreneur Business Grant Series and has since expanded her practice from graphic design into large-scale murals, community-based art, and multidisciplinary creative projects throughout Fairfield County and beyond.
She is a Season 3 artist at The SEED at Mill River Park in Stamford and a 2024–2025 Korry Fellow at The Norwalk Art Space. Lauren also serves on the Board of Directors of the Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan and is a Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholar alum. Her commitment to community extends beyond her creative work through mentorships, and ongoing support of nonprofit organizations.
About the Studio
Studio 162 is a boutique art and graphic design company in Stamford, Connecticut, focused on exceeding art and design dreams. For more than 20 years, we’ve helped businesses and nonprofits bring their ideas to life through memorable branding, logo design, graphic design, original artwork, and murals. We believe the best creative work starts with listening. Our approach is personal, responsive, and collaborative, with a creative family tree that stays inspired, curious, and knowledgeable. We’re especially proud of our work with local nonprofits and community organizations, including Abilis, Person to Person, Pacific House, Liberation Programs, Greenwich Hospital, and the Greenwich International Film Festival. Studio 162 was founded by artist, graphic designer, and muralist Lauren Clayton, whose work has been featured in Black Enterprise and Stamford Magazine.
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Design Family Tree
You are only as great as the people you surround yourself with. That’s why Studio 162 treasures its network of talented designers, illustrators, painters, planners and photographers.
Byron Soza
Photographer + Videographer
Bry Isriel
Designer + Artist
Don Hamerman
Photographer
Gina Cutarelli
Designer
Sebastian Dostmann
Event Designer + Manager
In The News
STAMFORD ADVOCATE
See the Stamford artists' mural that aims to connect Bedford Street garage to downtown
Ignacio Laguarda | July 5, 2024
Visitors to Stamford's Bedford Street Garage will now have a brightly colored escort to the shops and restaurants of one of the city's main business corridors. A mural — both on the pavement and on a wall inside the garage — is still in progress, and is being created to foster a better visual connection between the parking lot and garage to Bedford Street, officials said.
CONNECTICUT MAGAZINE
Marvelous Murals: Take a tour of CT's vibrant, expanding world of outdoor public art
Janet Reynolds: March 29, 2023
Not since the days of the Great Depression has Connecticut seen such a proliferation of public art. But unlike the 1930s, when murals went up on walls inside government buildings, murals in recent years have been having a coming-out party. A huge variety of artworks have popped up on exterior walls of buildings, bus shelters, alleyways, staircases, and many other structures.
STAMFORD MAGAZINE
The Wall: Next time you're out and about, look up
Diane Sembrot: November 14, 2022
"Need pep in your step? Check out the vibrantly colored mural at Kiwanis Park, just steps from the Palace Theater. It is both an energetic candy-colored marque that reads now playing: "Stamford downtown.” It’s a combination of electric pinks, blues, purples, and pops of yellow that capture the rush of anticipation. One feels moments before a show begins..."
~ Diane Sembrot, Stamford Magazine
STAMFORD ADVOCATE:
Colorful murals pop up in Stamford to liven up the city
Tyler Sizemore: June 14, 2022
Commissioned by Stamford Downtown Special Services District, a mural by Lauren Clayton of Studio 162 Design has brightened up Kiwanis Park in downtown Stamford and another livens up the side of the Stamford Town Center's parking garage.
