Leisa Rich: ArtFields Finalist, Solo Exhibition

Leisa Rich (BFA 1982) has been named as a finalist in ArtFields, a celebration and judged art competition with over $100,00 in awards held in Lake City, South Carolina, from April 21 — 29, 2017. Her installations include a viewer-interactive wall, a cell phone-based, communal sound symphony activity, and a special weeping willow tree — straight out of a story book — to make music or whisper in. All of her projects are designed to bring people together and use their senses to be partners with her in creating. 

Rich also has a solo exhibition at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana, from April 6 through July 3, 2017. The show will feature a wall installation created using low-melt polyester that she has crocheted into sculptural forms, melted, and heat pressed into ​“sticks and stones”, as well as 3D printed sculptures that meld various fiber art processes into each.