Margaret Prost is an artist and designer from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is currently a senior undergraduate student at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. From the moment she could hold a crayon, Prost was creating art. Throughout high school, she became passionate about understanding learning differences. As someone with learning differences, she feels the need to stand up for herself and others because of the mistreatment she endured while attending a less than progressive private Christian high school. Using emotional abstract and surrealist art, Prost paved an easier-traveled path for students with differences to follow. During her college career at LMU, Prost continues to advocate for herself and has found a particularinterest in creating a productive and supportive environment for people with learning differences. She turns her class assignments into social statement pieces and presents her work as a call to justice. Her Senior Design Thesis Capstone project centers around her experience as a young adult with dyslexia. After graduating with her Bachelor of Arts, Prost plans to continue her work with dyslexia and art while pursuing a Master of Arts with intent to be a Professor of Arts.
READ is an interactive art exhibition created by artist and designer, Margaret Prost. Prompted by the neon sign, the audience is encouraged to pick up READ Like a Dyslexic Sort of... and enjoy the lighthearted presentation of a beginner’s guide to dyslexia. With its simple yet selective choice of words, READ Like a Dyslexic Sort of... is reminiscent of a children’s book — something you would have read when first learning the “dos and don’ts” of society. It is a manual for understanding dyslexia and is meant to evoke a sense of curious kinship with dyslexic people rather than an immediate ostracization.
