Curatorial Practice

Leeann has experience curating from collections that span all continents and time periods. She is most passionate about modern and contemporary American art history with additional research in Latin American art. Her curatorial approach is influenced by a visitor-centric, labor-oriented interpretation of material history. She has completed curatorial projects at the Wright Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, Gallery 400, the Logan Museum of Anthropology, the Chicago History Museum, and others. She also produces exhibitions and articles for her gallery, Working Artists Collective.

Current

PROJECTS

Dakota Mace (Diné) is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on translating the language of Diné history and beliefs. As a Diné (Navajo) artist, her work draws from the history of her Diné heritage, exploring the themes of family lineage, community, and identity. Though Mace works in a diverse variety of media including weaving, beadwork, and papermaking, this exhibition especially highlights her alternative photography techniques. Through these artmaking processes, Dakota Mace's work pushes the viewer's understanding of Diné culture.

Visiting Curator

Join the Logan Museum of Anthropology for the opening of On this Ground: Textiles
from the Roland Freeman Collection. This selection of recent acquisitions discusses how
women-centered textile cooperatives around the world have sustained a sense of identity and cultivated economic empowerment
through the communal practice of fiber arts.

Curator

Working Artists Collective

Working Artists Collective is a digital gallery experience launched at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The curatorial objective of the gallery is to promote the work of underrepresented, emerging artists--specifically those within the Midwestern United States whose primary source of work and income is not their art-making practice.

Examples of archived WAC exhibitions can be found below.