User:JKizzieHumanities/Leslie Hirst

Leslie Hirst is an acclaimed multimedia, experimental artist and educator living in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hirst has taught at Istanbul Bilgi University and is currently a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Hirst was born and raised in Pennsylvania. She received her AA from Atlanta College of Art, her BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA Maryland Institute College of Art.

Hirst's work is known for it's use of text elements and exploration of language, and her interests include semiotics, cartography, psychology of color, botany, taxonomy and lace-making. Galleries where Hirst has exhibited include Weatherspoon Art Museum, Islip Art Museum, and Pavel Zoubok Gallery. In 2014, she was awarded the MacColl Johnson Fellowship in Visual Art.