Biography
Leslie Schomp received her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and her BFA from Florida State University. She is a senior lecturer who primarily teaches drawing in the Visual Arts department. In 2017 she co-curated, with Roger Hankins and Maurice Geracht, an exhibition for the Cantor Gallery titled Robert Beauchamp: Four Decades of Drawing. Other curatorial work includes 鈥淭he Beast and Me鈥. This exhibit showed both at the Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery in 2016 and the Maud Morgan Arts Center in 2019. Her work consists of drawings and sculptures created with textiles. She was a finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council award in Drawing in 2008. Her work was included in the recent Pyramyd publication, 鈥淒e Fil en Aiguille鈥, by Charlotte Vannier, which showcased work by eighty two international contemporary artists who use embroidery in their art.
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Courses
- Fundamentals of Drawing
- Intermediate Drawing
- Drawing, Body as Form
- Cutting Edge: Beyond Collage
- Drawing on Site