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Emily Leach's creative practice and research focuses on blackness, bodies, (re)production, growth and language. Leach studies glass to consider the philosophies and strategies of optics. She is based in Madison, WI, where she earned a BFA ('19) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Leach concentrated in studio art and film & media studies at Swarthmore College.
Leach was recognized as one of the Madison Bridge Work Emerging Artists (2019-20) through Arts + Literature Laboratory. She has exhibited locally and nationally. She has been a semi-finalist for the Forward Art Prize for visual artists in Dane County in 2019 and 2020.
Leach's work has been published in New Glass Review and Gumbo Magazine.
Leach currently works as the Assistant Director of the Glass Education Exchange (GEEX).
NEWS
Semi-finalist for the Forward Art Prize
Dane County, Madison, WI, Dec. 2020
Dane County, Madison, WI, Dec. 2020
Reading the Sequence selected for New Glass Review 41
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2020
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2020
curriculum vitae
Updated 12/2020.