Leslie Golomb
Leslie A. Golomb obtained a B.F.A. with University Honors in printmaking from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1975 and a M.F.A. in printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. As a student in 1972, she accepted an invitation to study at the renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Faculty at the summer residency included Jacob Lawrence, Louise Nevelson, and Philip Pearlstein among others.
She served as founder and director of the American Jewish Museum/JCC Pittsburgh from 1996 – 2006. The museum was accepted as a member of the Council of the American Jewish Museums and received guidance from the National Foundation of Jewish Culture.
Prominent awards include recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, PA Council on the Arts, and PA Humanities Council. In 2011, Leslie was a prize -winner of the China Guanlan International Print Biennial where she successfully completed a six - week artist in residency.
Noted recent exhibitions include Prints Tokyo 2012, Invitation to Celebrate 80th Anniversary of Japan Association, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, New Prints/New Narratives: Summer 2013, International Print Center of New York, Honors 2014, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China, International Print Triennial Krakow, Poland 2015, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Impact 9, International Print Conference, Contemporary Copperplate Photogravure, Akira Baba, Leslie Golomb, Taida Jasarevic, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, 2015 Guanlan International Print Biennial, China Printmaking Museum, 2015 International Print Conference, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, The Faces of Politics: Intolerance, Fuller Craft Museum, 2016 Brockton, MA, LIGHT MATTER: Art at the Intersection of Photography and Printmaking, 1954-2017, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2017 and 6th Guanlan International Print Biennial, China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2017.
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