Anita Laulainen is an artist and designer based in the Mat-Su Valley. She is the winner of the inaugural 2017 Artistic License Plate Competition, with her illustration featuring the northern lights dancing above an Alaskan landscape. With nearly ten years of experience as a professional artist, she currently works as an art director at an Anchorage-based ad agency as well as the artist behind Laulainen Arts, where she shares her other designs, illustrations, and photography.