CURRENT BIO

Leslie A. Golomb holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

She has been a leader in arts management, studio arts and art education for over 25 years. Leslie served as founder and director of the American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh for nine years. She has returned to the studio producing prints and works as an independent curator.

Leslie exhibits her work nationally and internationally and is the recipient of numerous awards, including recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, PA Council on the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship Award and a State of the Art Award from the State Museum of Pennsylvania.

In the past two years she won three prestigious awards. She is one of 15 prize winners of the 2011 China Guanlan International Print Biennial and recipient of an upcoming two month residency to work in the China Guanlan Printmaking Base sponsored by the Chinese government. Leslie was also awarded second prize for the Sixth Biennial Miniature Print Exhibition, Edmonton, Society of Contemporary Works on Paper, which traveled to three venues in Western Canada, and was awarded Second Prize Winner for a printed fiber piece entered in the Fiberarts International which traveled to New York and San Francisco.

Her work has also recently been included The Boston Printmaker's 60th Anniversary North American Print Biennial, The Print Center, Philadelphia, 81st International Printmaking Competition, and The New York International Print Center, Summer Exhibition.

Leslie along with Barbara Broff Goldman compiled and illustrated an anthology of Jewish Women's Devotional Literature titled, To Speak Her Heart, published in 2008.