Leona Christie
Leona Christie, Assistant Professor of Art in Printmaking/Digital Imaging, received her BS in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1991) and her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle (1994). Her etchings, drawings, and animations have been exhibited at Pierogi 2000 (Brooklyn); the Drawing Center (Manhattan); jennjoy gallery (San Francisco); New Langton Arts (San Francisco); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), G-Module (Paris), and the New York Video festival (Manhattan), and have been reviewed or reproduced in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, New Art Examiner, Art-Land (Copenhagen), and the National Science Foundation News, among other publications. Christie has also been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Frans Masereel Center for Graphic Arts (Belgium), and she received a Fellowship at the Kala Printmaking Institute in Berkeley, California. In 2000, she received the Bay Area Visual Artist Award from New Langton Arts. Christie's work may be found in the public collection of the New York Public Library and the Achenbach Collection of Graphic Arts in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. In 2005, The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (Troy) premiered the "Molecularium," a collaboratively-created 3d animated dome-projected show (which will be distributed nationally), for which Christie drew and designed all the characters.
