Bio
Leslie Smith makes drawings, prints, and books. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book, an MLS in Library Science, and an MA in Spanish and Latin American literature from UNC Chapel Hill. She recently completed a year as the Printmaking Artist-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She currently lives and teaches in North Carolina.
Artist's Statement
Often my practice begins with historical primary sources, which help to ground me in familiar stories and offer better understandings of the accounts we have long been telling ourselves. Most recently these have been narratives about plants and geologic time. From them, I suggest new possible accounts as an invitation to relate and situate ourselves differently in the world.