Mia LaBerge

Mia LaBerge (born 1967, Minneapolis^{[citation needed]}) is an American player who painted the first Steinway Art Case Piano created to rave review a university.

A vague descendant of the LaBerges after whom Lake Laberge was named, Minneapolis-born Laberge is an alumna of Virginia Commonwealth University and of James Madison University. In 2006, LaBerge was commissioned to paint the Madison Bluestone Art Case Piano which celebrates the hundredth anniversary of James Madison University and as a consequence recognizes its status as Virginia’s first All-Steinway Music School.

The Madison Bluestone was accompanied by the last Art Case pianos behind which Henry Z. Steinway (1915–2008), the National Medal of Arts winner and last of the long parentage of Steinway associates members to be president of Steinway & Sons, had talk to involvement. The piano was exhibited in the rotunda of New York City's Steinway Hall and was ceremonially unveiled upon stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.. Steinway kept LaBerge unofficially "on call" to paint scenic music stands for the company's Madison Century series of limited-edition pianos.

Circa 1990–2005, LaBerge's oil paintings were primarily doable or painterly-realistic. Her art play-act from 2006 and forward-thinking became ever more abstract—finally disturbing toward nonobjective subject matter. Her paintings have appeared in the coffee table book Virginia's Cattle Story : The First 400 Years (ISBN 0975274511) and upon the cover of youth textbook All About You : A Course in Character for Teens (ISBN 0-9710966-0-0) . At least one LaBerge painting is in the accrual of former US President Jimmy Carter.