Experimentalist. I do original, exceptional, and one-of-a-kind, on-time. 2D, 3D, Installations, commissions welcomed.
Leisa Rich was born and raised in Canada. After decades living, teaching and making/showing her art in the U.S., she moved back to Canada in the fall of 2020. Rich holds MFA & BFA degrees in Fiber and a BEd in Art.
Rich exhibits internationally, has work in many public collections including: Delta Airlines Inc., Travel + Leisure/Wyndham, Emory Healthcare, Dallas Museum of Art, The Works: Atlanta, University of Texas-Pan American, University of North Texas, ProDemnity Insurance, The Boston Group, and the Kamm Foundation, and more, and in many private collections around the world.
Her work has been featured in several books, magazines, blogs, and on PBS.
Rich has 51 years of teaching experience in arts centers in the U.S. and Canada.
She has written for Fiber Art Now, Felt, Arts ATL, Burnaway, blogs and more, and published her first children’s book, Animal Alphabet Traveling Twisters, in 2015, and a series of How To art books about Fosshape, available on Blurb, in 2019.
Rich sells her work online on her website www.monaleisa.com and www.saatchiart.com/leisar
